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

# Title Applauses  
1 Monad Laws Must Be Checked 252  
2 N-Queens Combinatorial Puzzle meets Cats 142  
3 Direct Style Effect Systems - The Print[A] Example - A Comprehension Aid 132  
4 The Debt Metaphor - Ward Cunningham in his 2009 YouTube video 120  
5 Definitions of Functional Programming 108  
6 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 1 107  
7 The Functional Programming Triad of map, filter and fold 107  
8 Folding Unfolded - Part 3 103  
9 Scala Left Fold Parallelisation - Three Approaches 98  
10 Nat, List and Option Monoids - From scratch - Combining and Folding - An example 98  
11 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 2 - Genuine versus Unfaithful Sieve 98  
12 From Scala Monadic Effects to Unison Algebraic Effects 95  
13 Functional Core and Imperative Shell - Game of Life Example - Haskell and Scala 87  
14 Folding Cheat Sheet #1 - Folding over recursively defined data structures for natural numbers and lists 86  
15 Hand Rolled Applicative User Validation Code Kata 85  
16 The Functional Programming Triad of Folding, Scanning and Iteration - A first example in Scala and Haskell 81  
17 Scala 3 enum for a terser Option Monad Algebraic Data Type 81  
18 Tagless Final Encoding - Algebras and Interpreters and also Programs 80  
19 Refactoring: A First Example - Martin Fowler’s First Example of Refactoring, Adapted to Java 75  
20 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1b 74  
21 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 1 - Recursive Function Rewrite - From Imperative Style in Pascal 64 To Functional Style in Scala 3 74  
22 From Subtype Polymorphism To Typeclass-based Ad hoc Polymorphism - An Example 72  
23 A Sighting of filterA in Typelevel Rite of Passage 71  
24 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 71  
25 Compositionality and Category Theory 71  
26 Refactoring: A First Example - Martin Fowler’s First Example of Refactoring, Adapted to Scala 69  
27 Folding Cheat Sheet #6 - Left and right folds and tail recursion 69  
28 Folding Unfolded - Part 2 67  
29 Quicksort - a whistle-stop tour of the algorithm in five languages and four paradigms 65  
30 Applicative Functor - Part 2 65  
31 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1 65  
32 Function Applicative for Great Good of Leap Year Function 65  
33 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 3 65  
34 Monad Fact #3 64  
35 Folding Cheat Sheet #2 - Programmatic and mathematical definitions of right fold and left fold 63  
36 Monoids - Part 1 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 62  
37 Algebraic Data Types for Data Oriented Programming - From Haskell and Scala to Java 62  
38 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 3 62  
39 Applicative Functor - Part 1 62  
40 Kleisli composition, flatMap, join, map, unit - implementation and interrelation - V2 updated for Scala 3 61  
41 Monad Fact #1 61  
42 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 1 60  
43 Lambda Expressions and Java 8 - Lambda Calculus, Lambda Expressions, Syntactic Sugar, First Class Functions 60  
44 Sum and Product Types - The Fruit Salad & Fruit Snack Example 58  
45 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 4 58  
46 Functor Laws 58  
47 Folding Unfolded - Part 1 58  
48 Folding Unfolded - Part 4 57  
49 Monad Fact #6 57  
50 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 1 57  
51 The Uniform Access Principle 57  
52 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 2 56  
53 Monad Fact #4 56  
54 Kleisli Composition 56  
55 Folding Cheat Sheet #3 - The universal property of fold 56  
56 State Monad 56  
57 Arrive at monads by going from composition of pure functions to composition of effectful functions 55  
58 The Monad Fact Series 55  
59 Left and Right Folds - Comparison of a mathematical definition and a programmatic one 55  
60 Writer Monad for logging execution of functions 54  
61 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 1 54  
62 Function Applicative for Great Good of Palindrome Checker Function 54  
63 Natural Transformations 54  
64 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 2 53  
65 The Expression Problem Part 2 53  
66 Monad Fact #2 53  
67 Applicative Functor - Part 3 52  
68 The Expression Problem Part 1 52  
69 A sighting of traverseFilter and foldMap in Practical FP in Scala 51  
70 A sighting of traverse_ in Practical FP in Scala 51  
71 Folding Cheat Sheet #8 - Folding with monoids 51  
72 The aggregate function - from sequential and parallel folds to parallel aggregation 50  
73 Sierpinski Triangle - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit - Haskell and Scala 50  
74 Fusing Transformations of Strict Scala Collections with Views 50  
75 Monad Fact #5 50  
76 Folding Cheat Sheet #7 - The three duality theorems of fold 50  
77 Monoids - Part 2 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 48  
78 Folding Unfolded - Part 5 47  
79 Side by Side - Scala and Java Adaptations of Martin Fowler’s Javascript Refactoring Example 47  
80 Sequence and Traverse - Part 2 46  
81 Folding Cheat Sheet #5 - Folding a list right and left using Cons and Nil results in the identity and reverse functions 46  
82 ‘go-to’ general-purpose sequential collections - from Java To Scala 46  
83 Folding Cheat Sheet Series Titles 46  
84 Functional Effects - Part 1 45  
85 Functional Effects - Part 2 45  
86 Ad hoc Polymorphism using Type Classes and Cats 44  
87 Sequence and Traverse - Part 1 44  
88 A sighting of sequence function in Practical FP in Scala 43  
89 Sequence and Traverse - Part 3 43  
90 Monad Transformers - Part 1 42  
91 Monads do not Compose 42  
92 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 1 39  
93 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 2 39  
94 Function Composition - forward composition versus backward composition 38  
95 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 2 38  
96 Symmetry in the interrelation of flatMap/foldMap/traverse and flatten/fold/sequence 37  
97 Folding Cheat Sheet #9 - List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 36  
98 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 1 - The Original Version 35  
99 Functor Composition 35  
100 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 2 - Recursive Function Simplification - From 2^n Recursive Invocations To n Tail-Recursive Invocations Exploiting Self-Similarity 34  
101 Monad as Functor with pair of Natural Transformations 33  
102 Addendum to `Monads do not Compose` 33  
103 Year when lambda functions were introduced in various languages 32  
104 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 4 - Interactive and Animated Dragon Creation 32  
105 The Nature of Complexity in John Ousterhout’s Philosophy of Software Design 31  
106 List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 31  
107 De Morgan's Laws are Monoid Homomorphisms 30  
108 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 2 - The Contemporary Version - An Introduction 27  
109 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 3 - Simplification Through Separation of Concerns - Rotation Without Matrix Multiplication 26  
110 Test Doubles - Terminology, Definitions and Illustrations - with Examples - Part 1 25  
111 Non-strict functions, bottom, and Scala by-name parameters 23  
112 Point-free or Die - Tacit Programming in Haskell 21  
113 ApplicativeError functions handling and recovering from errors: A mnemonic to recall their signatures from their names 17  
114 Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - from Procedural to Functional Programming - Part 1 16  
115 Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - from Procedural to Functional Programming - Part 2 9  
116 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to AI Coding Tool 'Claude Code' 5  
117 AI Concepts - MCP Neurons 4