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Learn Bosque Programming

By : Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta
Book Image

Learn Bosque Programming

By: Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta

Overview of this book

Bosque is a new high-level programming language inspired by the impact of structured programming in the 1970s. It adopts the TypeScript syntax and ML semantics and is designed for writing code that is easy to reason about for humans and machines. With this book, you'll understand how Bosque supports high productivity and cloud-first development by removing sources of accidental complexity and introducing novel features. This short book covers all the language features that you need to know to work with Bosque programming. You'll learn about basic data types, variables, functions, operators, statements, and expressions in Bosque and become familiar with advanced features such as typed strings, bulk algebraic data operations, namespace declarations, and concept and entity declarations. This Bosque book provides a complete language reference for learning to program with Bosque and understanding the regularized programming paradigm. You'll also explore real-world examples that will help you to reinforce the knowledge you've acquired. Additionally, you'll discover more advanced topics such as the Bosque project structure and contributing to the project. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to configure the Bosque environment and build better and reliable software with this exciting new open-source language.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction
5
Section 2: The Bosque Language Overview
10
Section 3: Practicing Bosque
15
Section 4: Exploring Advanced Features

Chapter 9: Collections

I think we can say without hesitation that vast majority of programs makes use of some kind of a container for data – a collection. Almost every real world app, at some point will need to store a collection of data in order to perform some operations. For example a CRM system needs to retrieve a collection of contacts from a database and probably sort them; or a calendar app that shows all events planned for a given day – that's also a collection of elements that needs to be retrieved and displayed. In fact, it is hard to imagine a program that does not need any collection – well, maybe except a “Hello, world” or alike.

In this chapter, we will learn about Bosque core collections. We will cover concepts such as List, Map, and Set and their useful methods. We will also mention collections that are not fully implemented yet (at the time of writing).

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

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