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Swift Functional Programming

You're reading from Swift Functional Programming Ease the creation, testing, and maintenance of Swift codes

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787284500

Length 316 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

Xcode

Concepts

Functional Programming

Author (1):

Dr. Fatih Nayebi

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Dedication

Preface

1. Getting Started with Functional Programming in Swift FREE CHAPTER

2. Functions and Closures

3. Types and Type Casting

4. Enumerations and Pattern Matching

5. Generics and Associated Type Protocols

6. Map, Filter, and Reduce

7. Dealing with Optionals

8. Functional Data Structures

9. Importance of Immutability

10. Best of Both Worlds and Combining FP Paradigms with OOP

11. Case Study - Developing an iOS Application with FP and OOP Paradigms

Chapter 8. Functional Data Structures

We are familiar with imperative data structures. In fact, there are lots of references to imperative data structures in different programming languages. In contrast, there aren't many references to declarative data structures or functional data structures. This is because FP languages are not as mainstream as imperative programming languages. Additionally, designing and implementing functional data structures is more difficult in comparison to imperative counterparts because of the following reasons:

Mutability is not recommended in FP
Functional data structures are expected to be more flexible than their imperative counterparts

Imperative data structures rely heavily on mutability and assignments and making them immutable needs extra development effort. Whenever we change an imperative data structure, we basically override the previous version; however, this is not the case with declarative programming as we expect that both the previous and new versions...

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Authors (1)

Nayebi

Nayebi

Dr. Fatih Nayebi has more than 15 years of industry experience in software engineering and architecture in various fields. He has developed numerous applications with Visual Basic, C++, C#, Java, MATLAB, Python, Objective-C, and Swift. He has been designing and developing enterprise and consumer iOS applications since the release of first iOS SDK. He is also an enthusiastic Node, Scala, and Haskell developer. Aside from industry, Fatih earned his Ph.D. degree in software engineering from cole de technologie suprieure, Universit du Qubec by researching on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, and Machine Learning. His specialties include applied predictive and optimization models, human-computer interaction, functional programming, machine learning, and mobile application architecture and development. Fatih currently works as a Director, Consulting at CGI Group Inc, Montreal, and continues to his academic research and publications as a postdoctoral researcher at cole de technologie suprieure. You can find him talking on Swift and Functional Programming at meetups such as http://www.meetup.com/swift-mtl/, on GitHub at https://github.com/conqueror, on Twitter as @thefatih, and on Instagram as @thefatih.

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