In this tutorial you’ve learned some basics of functional programming. We’ve used examples in JavaScript to study five core functional programming techniques, which we’ll further explore ...

In functional programming, this is a big no-no. Mutations are considered a nasty side-effect that should be avoided. The issues that arise from mutation typically have to do with assumptions about ...

Immutable software For example, in regular programming you initialize a variable to some value: x = 1 return x * 2 This will return 2. But the value of the program can change when another programmer ...

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.