Designing Functional Programs

Using lambda expressions, programming with streams, making use of lazy evaluations, putting the functional pipeline to good use, all of those are well intended use of functional programming. Once we get past the syntax and the semantics, the real challenge emerges. How in the world to actually build systems to use this paradigm? Is it practical to build applications that honor immutability, how to structure the applications using higher-order functions, and how to deal with those gnarly exceptions?

This presentation assumes that the audience is already familiar with functional style, with functions like map, filter, and reduce. It starts with the challenges to build realistic applications and dives into ways to structure the application to get the most out of the functional programming paradigm.

About Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.

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