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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

Summary


This chapter began by explaining why FP matters, and then it introduced the key paradigms of FP in general. Furthermore, it introduced the basics of the Swift programming language with code examples. At this point, we should have a broad view of FP concepts and the Swift programming language. All the topics in this chapter will be covered in detail in the upcoming chapters.

We will begin to dive deeper into these topics with functions, as they are the most essential building blocks in FP. Therefore, the following chapter will explain functions and give examples for pure, first-class, higher-order, and nested functions. Also, it will explain slightly more advanced topics such as memoization, function currying, and composition.