Introducing Functional Programming Using C#: Leveraging a New Perspective for Oop Developers

Understand the power of C#, a multi-paradigm language. This book will help you learn, analyze, and harness the functional aspects of C# so you can create a better program.

The book is divided into two parts. Part I starts with an overview of functional programming (FP). It covers the building blocks for FP: functions and immutability. You will learn about the built-in supports for FP, first- and higher-order functions (HOF), functional purity and side effects, different forms of immutability, and much more. Part II includes discussions on functional composition using pipelining and currying. It also explains how to handle temporal coupling and discusses partial functions and useful functional patterns (such as Map, Bind, Filter, and Fold). Author Vaskaran Sarcar takes you through functional exception-handling mechanisms and provides additional tips to make your programs more efficient.

After reading the book, you will understand and be able to implement key aspects of FP. You will be able to produce better code (and refactor existing code) by combining the best techniques from both FP and object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigms.

What Will You Learn

• Understand how the concepts of functional programming (FP) can be implemented using C#
• Refactor existing code (following the FP paradigm) to make it more readable, maintainable, and predictive
• Know how advanced features (such as delegates, lambdas, generics) can be used differently
• Understand how to efficiently use features such as lambda expressions and type inference as C# includes explicit language extensions to support functional programming

Who This Book Is For

C# developers familiar with object-oriented programming (OOP) who want to harness the power of functional programming (FP)

Vaskaran Sarcar obtained his Master of Engineering degree in Software Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India), and an MCA from Vidyasagar University, Midnapore (India). He was a National Gate Scholar (2007-2009) and has over 12 years of experience in education and the IT industry. He devoted his early years (2005-2007) to the teaching profession at various engineering colleges, and later he joined HP India PPS R&D Hub in Bangalore. He worked there until August of 2019. At the time of his retirement from HP, he was a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at HP. Vaskaran is following his dream and passion and is now a full-time author. You can see all of his books on Amazon's website.

Vaskaran Sarcar在印度加爾各答的Jadavpur大學獲得軟體工程碩士學位，並在Midnapore的Vidyasagar大學獲得MCA學位。他是一位國家門考學者（2007-2009），在教育和IT行業擁有超過12年的經驗。他的早年（2005-2007）致力於在各個工程學院的教學工作，後來加入了位於班加羅爾的HP India PPS R&D Hub。他在那裡工作直到2019年8月。在從HP退休時，他是HP的高級軟體工程師和團隊負責人。Vaskaran正在追尋他的夢想和熱情，現在是一位全職作家。您可以在亞馬遜網站上看到他的所有書籍。