Functional Programming

Functional programming, or at least, the use of functional programming techniques, has become quite common in Python.

In this course we will learn some of these techniques. And you may have heard about them too, in the last lesson of the first course.

Here are some articles you may wish to read to help you become familiar with the background to functional programming.

You don’t need to learn or even understand this right now; this is some background material, knowledge of which will help you later in the class.

• https://docs.python.org/3/howto/functional.html

• https://marcobonzanini.com/2015/06/08/functional-programming-in-python/

• https://www.dataquest.io/blog/introduction-functional-programming-python/

• https://hackernoon.com/learn-functional-python-in-10-minutes-to-2d1651dece6f