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Swift Functional Programming. Ease the creation, testing, and maintenance of Swift codes - Second Edition

Swift Functional Programming. Ease the creation, testing, and maintenance of Swift codes - Second Edition

Dr. Fatih Nayebi

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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
  • 1. Getting started with functional programming in Swift
  • 2. Defining and using functions
  • 3. Importance of immutability
  • 4. Defining and using Enumerations
  • 5. Defining and using Types, Type Inferences and Pattern Matching
  • 6. Defining and using functional data structures
  • 7. Defining and Using Generics
  • 8. Map, Filter and Reduce for Declarative Programming
  • 9. Dealing with Optionals
  • 10. Best of both worlds, combining FP paradigms with OOP
  • 11. Case Study: Developing an iOS application with FP and OOP paradigms
  • Title: Swift Functional Programming. Ease the creation, testing, and maintenance of Swift codes - Second Edition
  • Author: Dr. Fatih Nayebi
  • Original title: Swift Functional Programming. Ease the creation, testing, and maintenance of Swift codes - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781787283459, 9781787283459
  • Date of issue: 2017-04-26
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_15ic
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing