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Swift Functional Programming - Second Edition

By : Dr. Fatih Nayebi
Book Image

Swift Functional Programming - Second Edition

By: Dr. Fatih Nayebi

Overview of this book

Swift is a multi-paradigm programming language enabling you to tackle different problems in various ways. Understanding each paradigm and knowing when and how to utilize and combine them can lead to a better code base. Functional programming (FP) is an important paradigm that empowers us with declarative development and makes applications more suitable for testing, as well as performant and elegant. This book aims to simplify the FP paradigms, making them easily understandable and usable, by showing you how to solve many of your day-to-day development problems using Swift FP. It starts with the basics of FP, and you will go through all the core concepts of Swift and the building blocks of FP. You will also go through important aspects, such as function composition and currying, custom operator definition, monads, functors, applicative functors,memoization, lenses, algebraic data types, type erasure, functional data structures, functional reactive programming (FRP), and protocol-oriented programming(POP). You will then learn to combine those techniques to develop a fully functional iOS application from scratch
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Functional Programming in Swift

Getting onto the functional programming bandwagon needs a mindset shift, and changing our mindset is not an easy task as it takes a considerable amount of time to master a paradigm such as object-oriented programming. It needs a thorough approach, but it should also be easy to grasp. That is why we will be introduced to functional programming paradigms first, before going through each topic in detail.

This chapter introduces immutability, pattern matching, closures, as well as pure, first-class, and higher-order functions with Swift. Although all the topics in this chapter will be covered in detail in upcoming chapters, it is going to be helpful to have a broad view of the paradigms. In addition, this chapter will introduce Swift, as it is important to know the basics of the language to utilize in functional programming.

The following topics will be covered, along with examples:

  • Why functional programming matters
  • What is FP?
  • Swift language basics
  • Immutability
  • First-class, higher-order, and pure functions
  • Optionals and pattern matching
  • Closures
  • Type aliasing