• Work faster with functional programming
• Understand the pure and impure approach
• Perform common tasks in both Python^® and Haskell

Master the fundamentals of functional programming

Especially for nondevelopers, functional programming can be the perfect tool for coding an endless variety of problems. If you've been afraid that the paradigm was too complex, this book will quickly dispel those fears. You'll see how functional programming processes are used to derive, analyze, and prove the worth of algorithms; explore the differences in Haskell and Python and learn when to use pure and impure approaches; see why functional programming is vital for AI and gaming applications; and put your new skills to work.

Inside...

• Clarify functional programming goals
• Use Python^® and Haskell
• Emphasis on the math connection in programming
• The role of lambda calculus
• Deal with types
• Handle binary data
• Simple error trapping