Episode_8.md

Episode 8: Damn Functional Programming with Paco Estevez

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• Discussion after the episode

In this episode we have talked with Paco Estevez about Functional Programming and how he applies Functional Programming in his android apps. We have covered:

• Concepts of Functional Programming
• Monads, Pure Functions, Immutability, Tuples, Union Types
• Pattern Matching
• Error Handling
• Functional Reactive Programming with RxJava
• Restoring state in Android apps

Guest:

Paco Estevez @pacoworks, personal blog, GitHub

Hosts:

• Artem Zinnatullin @artem_zin, personal blog, GitHub
• Hannes Dorfmann @sockeqwe, personal blog, GitHub

Additional links:

Talks, books and websites about Functional Programming:

• Clojure for the Brave and True
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
• F# for fun and profit
• Talk by Paco about Memory Management in Fully Reactive Apps

Some of Paco's open source libraries:

• Komprehensions
• RxSealedUnions
• RxTuples