Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly

Learn the main concepts behind functional programming such as currying, partial application, and monads, and how to combine functional programming with your imperative programming projects.

Functional programming is fundamentally different from imperative programming. As such, it provides a unique approach to solving problems—one that requires developers to transform how they think about software design and implementation. With Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly by Marc Clifton, you will learn many of the basic concepts involved with functional programming, such as currying, partial application, function pipelines, recursion, and continuations. By book's end, you will learn how to combine functional and imperative programming to get the most out of your solutions.

Title Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly
Author(s) Marc Clifton
Publisher: Syncfusion Inc. (2014)
Language: English
eBook: http://www.syncfusion.com/content/

O'Reilly® Learning Scala: Practical Functional Programming for the JVM

Scala is an object-oriented programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. In addition to being object-oriented, Scala is also a functional language, and combines the best approaches to OO and functional programming.

Learning Scala is an introduction and a guide to getting started with functional programming (FP) development. Written for programmers who are already familiar with object-oriented (OO) development, the book introduces the reader to the core Scala syntax and its OO models with examples and solutions that build familiarity, experience and confidence with the language.

Title Learning Scala: Practical Functional Programming for the JVM
Author(s) Jason Swartz
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; April, 2014
Paperback 300 pages (est.)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1-4493-6793-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-4493-6793-0
eBook: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001798/index.html

Zen-Style Programming

 This book introduces the concepts of functional and symbolic programming, applies these techniques to some problems of varying complexity, and eventually discusses the implementation of an abstraction layer for solving problems in an abstract, architecture-neutral way by the example of a purely symbolic LISP interpreter.

Title Zen-Style Programming
Author(s) Nils M. Holm
Publisher: Lulu.com (November 24, 2011); eBook (2009)
Paperback 336 pages
Language: English
eBook: http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~nmh/t3x.org/zzz/zen-style-programming.zip