Finally, all 13 chapters are done. Now I can compile them into 1 big post with all the videos. I highly recommend every developer to watch these videos even though you’ll not be writing Functional code.
Edit: I totally forgot to link back all the chapters. Click on the links on each chapter for the original page and details to download the videos.
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I encourage everyone who is still sitting on the fence about whether to learn a functional language to read this Beautiful Code – The Manifesto article written by Lau B. Jensen.
To summarize, his point of writing beautiful code essentially avoids a lot of the pitfalls you get from Imperative languages.
Beautiful Code is…
Of course, functional languages do all that. Therefore, functional languages create beautiful code. Trust me, you want to learn a functional language.
Try Haskell for size and read this book Real World Haskell which is a fantastic book to learn Haskell.
Or learn F# for those in the Microsoft space. I highly recommend Chris Smith‘s Programming F# book to learn F#.