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

# Title Applauses  
1 Monad Laws Must Be Checked 253  
2 N-Queens Combinatorial Puzzle meets Cats 145  
3 Direct Style Effect Systems - The Print[A] Example - A Comprehension Aid 136  
4 The Debt Metaphor - Ward Cunningham in his 2009 YouTube video 128  
5 Folding Unfolded - Part 3 126  
6 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 1 111  
7 Definitions of Functional Programming 111  
8 The Functional Programming Triad of map, filter and fold 109  
9 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 2 - Genuine versus Unfaithful Sieve 100  
10 Scala Left Fold Parallelisation - Three Approaches 100  
11 Nat, List and Option Monoids - From scratch - Combining and Folding - An example 99  
12 From Scala Monadic Effects to Unison Algebraic Effects 98  
13 Functional Core and Imperative Shell - Game of Life Example - Haskell and Scala 90  
14 Folding Cheat Sheet #1 - Folding over recursively defined data structures for natural numbers and lists 88  
15 Hand Rolled Applicative User Validation Code Kata 87  
16 Scala 3 enum for a terser Option Monad Algebraic Data Type 84  
17 The Functional Programming Triad of Folding, Scanning and Iteration - A first example in Scala and Haskell 83  
18 Tagless Final Encoding - Algebras and Interpreters and also Programs 82  
19 Refactoring: A First Example - Martin Fowler’s First Example of Refactoring, Adapted to Java 79  
20 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1b 77  
21 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 1 - Recursive Function Rewrite - From Imperative Style in Pascal 64 To Functional Style in Scala 3 76  
22 From Subtype Polymorphism To Typeclass-based Ad hoc Polymorphism - An Example 74  
23 Compositionality and Category Theory 73  
24 A Sighting of filterA in Typelevel Rite of Passage 73  
25 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 73  
26 Refactoring: A First Example - Martin Fowler’s First Example of Refactoring, Adapted to Scala 72  
27 Folding Cheat Sheet #6 - Left and right folds and tail recursion 71  
28 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 3 70  
29 Folding Unfolded - Part 2 69  
30 Quicksort - a whistle-stop tour of the algorithm in five languages and four paradigms 68  
31 Function Applicative for Great Good of Leap Year Function 67  
32 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1 67  
33 Applicative Functor - Part 2 67  
34 Folding Cheat Sheet #2 - Programmatic and mathematical definitions of right fold and left fold 66  
35 Monad Fact #3 66  
36 Monoids - Part 1 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 65  
37 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 3 65  
38 Applicative Functor - Part 1 64  
39 Monad Fact #1 63  
40 Kleisli composition, flatMap, join, map, unit - implementation and interrelation - V2 updated for Scala 3 63  
41 Algebraic Data Types for Data Oriented Programming - From Haskell and Scala to Java 63  
42 Lambda Expressions and Java 8 - Lambda Calculus, Lambda Expressions, Syntactic Sugar, First Class Functions 62  
43 Sum and Product Types - The Fruit Salad & Fruit Snack Example 62  
44 Folding Unfolded - Part 1 61  
45 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 4 61  
46 Functor Laws 61  
47 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 1 61  
48 Folding Unfolded - Part 4 60  
49 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 1 60  
50 The Uniform Access Principle 60  
51 Monad Fact #6 59  
52 Kleisli Composition 59  
53 Folding Cheat Sheet #3 - The universal property of fold 59  
54 Monad Fact #4 59  
55 State Monad 58  
56 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 2 58  
57 Arrive at monads by going from composition of pure functions to composition of effectful functions 58  
58 The Monad Fact Series 58  
59 Natural Transformations 57  
60 Left and Right Folds - Comparison of a mathematical definition and a programmatic one 57  
61 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 1 57  
62 Function Applicative for Great Good of Palindrome Checker Function 57  
63 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 2 56  
64 Writer Monad for logging execution of functions 56  
65 Monad Fact #2 55  
66 The Expression Problem Part 2 55  
67 The Expression Problem Part 1 54  
68 A sighting of traverse_ in Practical FP in Scala 54  
69 Applicative Functor - Part 3 54  
70 A sighting of traverseFilter and foldMap in Practical FP in Scala 53  
71 Fusing Transformations of Strict Scala Collections with Views 53  
72 Folding Cheat Sheet #8 - Folding with monoids 52  
73 Sierpinski Triangle - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit - Haskell and Scala 52  
74 The aggregate function - from sequential and parallel folds to parallel aggregation 52  
75 Folding Cheat Sheet Series Titles 51  
76 Monoids - Part 2 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 51  
77 Folding Cheat Sheet #7 - The three duality theorems of fold 51  
78 Monad Fact #5 51  
79 Folding Cheat Sheet #5 - Folding a list right and left using Cons and Nil results in the identity and reverse functions 50  
80 Side by Side - Scala and Java Adaptations of Martin Fowler’s Javascript Refactoring Example 49  
81 Folding Unfolded - Part 5 49  
82 Sequence and Traverse - Part 2 48  
83 Functional Effects - Part 2 48  
84 ‘go-to’ general-purpose sequential collections - from Java To Scala 48  
85 Ad hoc Polymorphism using Type Classes and Cats 47  
86 Sequence and Traverse - Part 1 46  
87 A sighting of sequence function in Practical FP in Scala 46  
88 Monads do not Compose 46  
89 Functional Effects - Part 1 46  
90 Sequence and Traverse - Part 3 46  
91 Monad Transformers - Part 1 44  
92 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 2 42  
93 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 1 42  
94 Function Composition - forward composition versus backward composition 41  
95 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 2 40  
96 Folding Cheat Sheet #9 - List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 40  
97 Symmetry in the interrelation of flatMap/foldMap/traverse and flatten/fold/sequence 39  
98 Functor Composition 38  
99 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 1 - The Original Version 37  
100 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 2 - Recursive Function Simplification - From 2^n Recursive Invocations To n Tail-Recursive Invocations Exploiting Self-Similarity 37  
101 Addendum to `Monads do not Compose` 37  
102 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 4 - Interactive and Animated Dragon Creation 36  
103 Monad as Functor with pair of Natural Transformations 35  
104 Year when lambda functions were introduced in various languages 34  
105 List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 34  
106 The Nature of Complexity in John Ousterhout’s Philosophy of Software Design 34  
107 De Morgan's Laws are Monoid Homomorphisms 33  
108 Test Doubles - Terminology, Definitions and Illustrations - with Examples - Part 1 29  
109 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 2 - The Contemporary Version - An Introduction 29  
110 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 3 - Simplification Through Separation of Concerns - Rotation Without Matrix Multiplication 27  
111 Non-strict functions, bottom, and Scala by-name parameters 25  
112 Point-free or Die - Tacit Programming in Haskell 25  
113 ApplicativeError functions handling and recovering from errors: A mnemonic to recall their signatures from their names 19  
114 Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - from Procedural to Functional Programming - Part 1 18  
115 Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - from Procedural to Functional Programming - Part 2 13  
116 AI Concepts - MCP Neurons 9  
117 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to AI Coding Tool 'Claude Code' 8  
118 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to Github Copilot Chat - using Scala in IntelliJ IDEA 5