Advanced Functional Programming in Kotlin: monads and more!

Increase your functional programming knowledge and skills, and bright even more in your job interviews

What you'll learn
- Learn the advanced topics of functional programming: monoids, semigroups, monads, and applicatives
- Implement your own advanced functional patterns and abstractions in Kotlin.
- Create a fully-functional validation library with a pure functional design.
- Impress your technical interviewer with unique, professional, and advanced designs!

Requirements
- Introductory course "Functional Programming in Kotlin: to monads and beyond!"

Description
In recent years, all the new programming languages that have emerged include more or less prominent functional features. We all start by using a filter, then amap,flatMap,reduce… at first, it seems easy!

Then we try to learn concepts like monad, functor, monoid, applicative… we read a tutorial here, a blog post there… and after all, we think "I'm never going to understand this."

And I have to tell you—it’s not that hard, you're just using the wrong approach: to understand what a monad is, you have to create your own monad. Then a second one, a third… and voilà, you understand what you're doing, even if no one has actually explained it to you.

In this course, you’re going to do exactly that: understand the concepts of functional programming in a 100% practical way, with exercises in Kotlin. That way, you’ll immerse yourself in it, internalize it, and by the end of the day, you’ll know what a monad is (and a functor, a monoid, an applicative…) even if you’re not quite sure how you ended up learning it.

This course is focused is the most obscure part of the functional programming: the functional abstractions, or as we call them:functional patterns.

Monoid

Semi-group

Monad

Applicative

Don’t hesitate—functional programming is one of the few disciplines that will truly change the way you think, and that will make you a much more valuable programmer than someone who only knows the latest trendy framework.

IMPORTANT: this course is the advanced part of the course "Functional Programming in Kotlin: to monads and beyond!"

Who this course is for:
- Kotlin developers with basic knowledge of functional programming
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