Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION. PART I: INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING.

CHAPTER 1: A LOOK AT FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING HISTORY.

CHAPTER 2: PUTTING FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING INTO A MODERN CONTEXT.

PART II: C# FOUNDATIONS OF FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING.

CHAPTER 3: FUNCTIONS, DELEGATES, AND LAMBDA EXPRESSIONS.

CHAPTER 4: FLEXIBLE TYPING WITH GENERICS.

CHAPTER 5: LAZY LISTING WITH ITERATORS.

CHAPTER 6: ENCAPSULATING DATA IN CLOSURES.

CHAPTER 7: CODE IS DATA.

PART III: IMPLEMENTING WELL-KNOWN FUNCTIONAL TECHNIQUES IN C#.

CHAPTER 8: CURRYING AND PARTIAL APPLICATION.

CHAPTER 9: LAZY EVALUATION.

CHAPTER 10: CACHING TECHNIQUES.

CHAPTER 11: CALLING YOURSELF.

CHAPTER 12: STANDARD HIGHER ORDER FUNCTIONS.

CHAPTER 13: SEQUENCES.

CHAPTER 14: CONSTRUCTING FUNCTIONS FROM FUNCTIONS.

CHAPTER 15: OPTIONAL VALUES.

CHAPTER 16: KEEPING DATA FROM CHANGING.

CHAPTER 17: MONADS.

PART IV: PUTTING FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING INTO ACTION.

CHAPTER 18: INTEGRATING FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING APPROACHES.

CHAPTER 19: THE MAPREDUCE PATTERN.

CHAPTER 20: APPLIED FUNCTIONAL MODULARIZATION.

CHAPTER 21: EXISTING PROJECTS USING FUNCTIONAL TECHNIQUES.

INDEX.

About the Author

Oliver Sturm has over 20 years experience developing professional software. He is a well-known expert in various areas of application architecture, programming languages and the third-party .NET tools made by DevExpress. His main focus since 2002 has been on the .NET platform.