120 Decks Ordered By Applause Count - Highest First - Chse one - invert order

# Title Applauses  
1 Monad Laws Must Be Checked 256  
2 Folding Unfolded - Part 3 150  
3 N-Queens Combinatorial Puzzle meets Cats 147  
4 Direct Style Effect Systems - The Print[A] Example - A Comprehension Aid 140  
5 The Debt Metaphor - Ward Cunningham in his 2009 YouTube video 137  
6 Definitions of Functional Programming 113  
7 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 1 113  
8 The Functional Programming Triad of map, filter and fold 111  
9 Scala Left Fold Parallelisation - Three Approaches 103  
10 Nat, List and Option Monoids - From scratch - Combining and Folding - An example 103  
11 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 2 - Genuine versus Unfaithful Sieve 103  
12 From Scala Monadic Effects to Unison Algebraic Effects 99  
13 Functional Core and Imperative Shell - Game of Life Example - Haskell and Scala 91  
14 Hand Rolled Applicative User Validation Code Kata 90  
15 Folding Cheat Sheet #1 - Folding over recursively defined data structures for natural numbers and lists 89  
16 The Functional Programming Triad of Folding, Scanning and Iteration - A first example in Scala and Haskell 87  
17 Scala 3 enum for a terser Option Monad Algebraic Data Type 86  
18 Tagless Final Encoding - Algebras and Interpreters and also Programs 85  
19 Refactoring: A First Example - Martin Fowler’s First Example of Refactoring, Adapted to Java 83  
20 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 1 - Recursive Function Rewrite - From Imperative Style in Pascal 64 To Functional Style in Scala 3 78  
21 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1b 78  
22 Folding Cheat Sheet #4 - For functions that can be defined both as a right fold and as a left fold, one may be more efficient than the other 76  
23 From Subtype Polymorphism To Typeclass-based Ad hoc Polymorphism - An Example 76  
24 Compositionality and Category Theory 75  
25 Folding Cheat Sheet #6 - Left and right folds and tail recursion 74  
26 Refactoring: A First Example - Martin Fowler’s First Example of Refactoring, Adapted to Scala 74  
27 A Sighting of filterA in Typelevel Rite of Passage 74  
28 Folding Unfolded - Part 2 72  
29 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 3 72  
30 Quicksort - a whistle-stop tour of the algorithm in five languages and four paradigms 70  
31 Function Applicative for Great Good of Leap Year Function 69  
32 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1 69  
33 Monad Fact #3 69  
34 Applicative Functor - Part 2 68  
35 Folding Cheat Sheet #2 - Programmatic and mathematical definitions of right fold and left fold 68  
36 Monoids - Part 1 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 67  
37 Applicative Functor - Part 1 67  
38 Monad Fact #1 66  
39 Lambda Expressions and Java 8 - Lambda Calculus, Lambda Expressions, Syntactic Sugar, First Class Functions 66  
40 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 3 66  
41 Kleisli composition, flatMap, join, map, unit - implementation and interrelation - V2 updated for Scala 3 64  
42 Algebraic Data Types for Data Oriented Programming - From Haskell and Scala to Java 64  
43 Sum and Product Types - The Fruit Salad & Fruit Snack Example 63  
44 Functor Laws 63  
45 Folding Unfolded - Part 1 63  
46 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 4 63  
47 Natural Transformations 62  
48 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 1 62  
49 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 1 62  
50 Folding Cheat Sheet #3 - The universal property of fold 61  
51 The Uniform Access Principle 61  
52 Monad Fact #6 61  
53 Kleisli Composition 61  
54 The Monad Fact Series 61  
55 Monad Fact #4 60  
56 State Monad 60  
57 Folding Unfolded - Part 4 60  
58 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 2 60  
59 Arrive at monads by going from composition of pure functions to composition of effectful functions 59  
60 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 1 58  
61 Function Applicative for Great Good of Palindrome Checker Function 58  
62 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 2 58  
63 Left and Right Folds - Comparison of a mathematical definition and a programmatic one 58  
64 The Expression Problem Part 2 58  
65 Writer Monad for logging execution of functions 58  
66 Monad Fact #2 57  
67 Applicative Functor - Part 3 57  
68 The Expression Problem Part 1 57  
69 A sighting of traverseFilter and foldMap in Practical FP in Scala 56  
70 A sighting of traverse_ in Practical FP in Scala 56  
71 Monoids - Part 2 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 54  
72 The aggregate function - from sequential and parallel folds to parallel aggregation 54  
73 Folding Cheat Sheet #8 - Folding with monoids 54  
74 Sequence and Traverse - Part 2 54  
75 Monad Fact #5 54  
76 Fusing Transformations of Strict Scala Collections with Views 54  
77 Folding Cheat Sheet #7 - The three duality theorems of fold 53  
78 Sierpinski Triangle - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit - Haskell and Scala 53  
79 Folding Unfolded - Part 5 52  
80 ‘go-to’ general-purpose sequential collections - from Java To Scala 52  
81 Folding Cheat Sheet Series Titles 52  
82 Folding Cheat Sheet #5 - Folding a list right and left using Cons and Nil results in the identity and reverse functions 51  
83 Side by Side - Scala and Java Adaptations of Martin Fowler’s Javascript Refactoring Example 51  
84 Functional Effects - Part 2 51  
85 Sequence and Traverse - Part 1 49  
86 Functional Effects - Part 1 49  
87 Monads do not Compose 49  
88 Sequence and Traverse - Part 3 48  
89 Ad hoc Polymorphism using Type Classes and Cats 48  
90 A sighting of sequence function in Practical FP in Scala 48  
91 Monad Transformers - Part 1 47  
92 Function Composition - forward composition versus backward composition 44  
93 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 2 43  
94 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 1 43  
95 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 2 43  
96 Symmetry in the interrelation of flatMap/foldMap/traverse and flatten/fold/sequence 42  
97 Folding Cheat Sheet #9 - List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 40  
98 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 1 - The Original Version 39  
99 Functor Composition 39  
100 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 2 - Recursive Function Simplification - From 2^n Recursive Invocations To n Tail-Recursive Invocations Exploiting Self-Similarity 38  
101 Addendum to `Monads do not Compose` 38  
102 Monad as Functor with pair of Natural Transformations 37  
103 Year when lambda functions were introduced in various languages 37  
104 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 4 - Interactive and Animated Dragon Creation 36  
105 List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 35  
106 De Morgan's Laws are Monoid Homomorphisms 34  
107 The Nature of Complexity in John Ousterhout’s Philosophy of Software Design 34  
108 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 2 - The Contemporary Version - An Introduction 32  
109 Test Doubles - Terminology, Definitions and Illustrations - with Examples - Part 1 29  
110 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 3 - Simplification Through Separation of Concerns - Rotation Without Matrix Multiplication 28  
111 Point-free or Die - Tacit Programming in Haskell 26  
112 Non-strict functions, bottom, and Scala by-name parameters 26  
113 ApplicativeError functions handling and recovering from errors: A mnemonic to recall their signatures from their names 20  
114 Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - from Procedural to Functional Programming - Part 1 20  
115 Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - from Procedural to Functional Programming - Part 2 13  
116 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to AI Coding Tool 'Claude Code' 12  
117 AI Concepts - MCP Neurons 9  
118 Defining filter using (a) recursion (b) folding (c) folding with S, B and I combinators (d) folding with applicative functor and identity function 7  
119 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to Github Copilot Chat - using Scala in IntelliJ IDEA 7  
120 The Functional Programming Triad of fold, scan and iterate 5