Learn functional programming (FP) the fast way in this small, easy-to-read book by Alvin Alexander. While Alvin has written over 1,000 pages about FP, he recently discovered this new, simpler technique to help OOP developers learn FP fast — in less than 250 pages! If you’re an OOP developer who uses programming languages like Java or Kotlin, Alvin understands your background. He’s a former Java OOP instructor and mentor, and uses Kotlin for Android apps, and started creating the Kotlin Quick Reference booklet. A great thing about this book is its simplicity. What you’ll find in this book are just code examples that build up step-by-step, until you’re writing FP code. This simple little book has an audacious goal: To help OOP developers who use languages like Java, Kotlin, Python, Swift, and C++ learn the concepts that take you to the cusp of using Scala’s two main FP libraries: Cats Effect and ZIO. Furthermore, I’ve written the book especially for people with a background in object-oriented programming (OOP). I taught Java and OOP courses for many years, and still write mostly-OOP code for iPhone and Android apps (using Flutter Dart and Kotlin, respectively), so I’m very familiar with OOP, and what OOP developers need to know to learn FP. Having worked with Java, Kotlin, Swift, Python, C++, Dart, and Ruby, I believe this book will be helpful to developers who use those languages, and are interested in learning FP.

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