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Mostly adequate guide to FP (in javascript)
27 mentions on Hacker News by 23 people: 8 stories, 19 comments · first 2015-07-14 · latest 2024-11-22
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…and "return" for several use-cases, and do a bit of currying. Very interesting small exercises. https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide/rele...
comment by lolive · 2024-07-22 · in Ask HN: What resources do you recommend for learning Haskell? -
This project might serve as inspiration: https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide
comment by l5870uoo9y · 2023-01-03 · in Anyone use Git for writing projects? -
…resources are mostly in haskell and you don't really understand it. Alternatively, this might help: https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide Also alternatively, what I would do is just go slowly through the fp-ts code. Look…
comment by JoelMcCracken · 2021-10-29 · in Ask HN: Hey Functional Programmers, how did you learn functional programming -
…explaining these concepts in non-Haskell languages. This one is quite good and in javascript: https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide As far as functors this could be rephrased more comprehensibly to those unfamiliar with…
comment by handsaway · 2021-10-21 · in Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013) -
…is always my favorite: Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming [1] [1] : https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide
comment by longnguyen · 2020-12-22 · in Ask HN: Book recommendations to learn functional programming -
…good design patters in it. - Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming - https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide - It's not a textbook. This is the book that introduced me to FP. I love it, great…
comment by blaisehorvath · 2020-06-11 · in Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks? -
I enjoyed reading Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming, 146 pages. https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide
comment by woldemariam · 2020-05-30 · in Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers? -
"Mostly adequate guide to FP (in javascript)" I really enjoyed this one. https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide
comment by iillexial · 2019-12-13 · in Ask HN: Fun Tech Book Recommendations? -
https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide is also didactic but goes into more details, and is not Haskell-specific (IIRC functors, map and so forth are all defined in JavaScript)
comment by laurentl · 2018-08-22 · in Advice for Haskell beginners (2017) -
…also has a course on Frontend Masters modeled after his book Functional Light JavaScript. [1]: https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide/blob... [2]: http://www.learnyouahaskell.com [3]: https://egghead.io/courses/professor-fr…
comment by johnsonjo · 2018-03-25 · in Ask HN: Resources to Learn Functional Programming? -
I have learnt monads via the absolutely MARVELOUS book by Brian Lonsdorf. cf https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide I agree that Haskell is built around those concepts. But the point of learning category theory is to…
comment by lolive · 2017-10-05 · in From design patterns to category theory -
…programming are on the rise, so you might want to familiarize yourself with it a little bit -- https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide this is a good book, and fist 5-7 chapters are good enough to change your look at the…
comment by bloomca · 2017-08-27 · in Ask HN: Experienced JavaScript programmers, what are your recommendations? -
…to get the book up to date with ES6. Once that is done I am sure they will move on to part 5. https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide/pull...
comment by fL1Pm0d3 · 2017-06-01 · in Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript? -
https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide
comment by fL1Pm0d3 · 2017-06-01 · in Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript? -
…for learning functional concepts like Functors, Applicatives and Monads is the free online book: https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide It uses Javascript to explain everything from scratch. Pure-functions, currying,…
comment by mpfundstein · 2017-03-26 · in Haskell Concepts in One Sentence -
…how beautiful and intuitive the end result of FP can be, even when the concepts seem complex. [0] https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide [1] https://egghead.io/courses/professor-frisby-introduces-compo... [2]…
comment by joshschreuder · 2017-03-23 · in Intro to functional JavaScript (screencast) -
…FP in something you're already familiar with? For example, this guide in JavaScript is pretty good: https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide/ Or in Ruby, while you still have to create classes, you could explore writing pure…
comment by midgetjones · 2016-09-08 · in Ask HN: Clojure vs. Haskell? -
…a language he is familiar with? Two resources I can recommend are: - http://reactivex.io/learnrx/ - https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide The second link in particular is quite an in-depth look at the more theoretical…
comment by joshschreuder · 2015-12-10 · in Ask HN: How to explain functional programming to my 13-year old? -
Love Javascript and want to learn FP? Checkout this book - https://github.com/DrBoolean/mostly-adequate-guide . I stumbled upon it last week and I've found it to be quite approachable (although I haven't yet read the section on Monads).
comment by krat0sprakhar · 2015-07-20 · in Monads in JavaScript