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

# Title Applauses  
1 Monad Laws Must Be Checked 258  
2 Folding Unfolded - Part 3 163  
3 N-Queens Combinatorial Puzzle meets Cats 149  
4 Direct Style Effect Systems - The Print[A] Example - A Comprehension Aid 143  
5 The Debt Metaphor - Ward Cunningham in his 2009 YouTube video 141  
6 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 1 116  
7 Definitions of Functional Programming 115  
8 The Functional Programming Triad of map, filter and fold 113  
9 Nat, List and Option Monoids - From scratch - Combining and Folding - An example 105  
10 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 2 - Genuine versus Unfaithful Sieve 105  
11 Scala Left Fold Parallelisation - Three Approaches 105  
12 From Scala Monadic Effects to Unison Algebraic Effects 101  
13 Functional Core and Imperative Shell - Game of Life Example - Haskell and Scala 93  
14 Hand Rolled Applicative User Validation Code Kata 93  
15 Folding Cheat Sheet #1 - Folding over recursively defined data structures for natural numbers and lists 93  
16 The Functional Programming Triad of Folding, Scanning and Iteration - A first example in Scala and Haskell 89  
17 Scala 3 enum for a terser Option Monad Algebraic Data Type 88  
18 Tagless Final Encoding - Algebras and Interpreters and also Programs 87  
19 Refactoring: A First Example - Martin Fowler’s First Example of Refactoring, Adapted to Java 86  
20 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 1 - Recursive Function Rewrite - From Imperative Style in Pascal 64 To Functional Style in Scala 3 81  
21 Compositionality and Category Theory 80  
22 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1b 80  
23 From Subtype Polymorphism To Typeclass-based Ad hoc Polymorphism - An Example 79  
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 78  
25 A Sighting of filterA in Typelevel Rite of Passage 77  
26 Folding Cheat Sheet #6 - Left and right folds and tail recursion 76  
27 Refactoring: A First Example - Martin Fowler’s First Example of Refactoring, Adapted to Scala 76  
28 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 3 75  
29 Folding Unfolded - Part 2 74  
30 Quicksort - a whistle-stop tour of the algorithm in five languages and four paradigms 72  
31 Monad Fact #3 71  
32 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1 71  
33 Function Applicative for Great Good of Leap Year Function 71  
34 Applicative Functor - Part 2 71  
35 Applicative Functor - Part 1 70  
36 Folding Cheat Sheet #2 - Programmatic and mathematical definitions of right fold and left fold 70  
37 Monoids - Part 1 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 68  
38 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 3 68  
39 Lambda Expressions and Java 8 - Lambda Calculus, Lambda Expressions, Syntactic Sugar, First Class Functions 68  
40 Monad Fact #1 68  
41 Algebraic Data Types for Data Oriented Programming - From Haskell and Scala to Java 67  
42 Kleisli composition, flatMap, join, map, unit - implementation and interrelation - V2 updated for Scala 3 67  
43 Functor Laws 66  
44 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 1 66  
45 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 2 66  
46 Sum and Product Types - The Fruit Salad & Fruit Snack Example 65  
47 Folding Unfolded - Part 1 65  
48 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 4 65  
49 The Uniform Access Principle 65  
50 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 1 64  
51 Natural Transformations 64  
52 Folding Cheat Sheet #3 - The universal property of fold 64  
53 The Monad Fact Series 63  
54 Kleisli Composition 63  
55 State Monad 63  
56 Monad Fact #4 63  
57 Folding Unfolded - Part 4 63  
58 Monad Fact #6 63  
59 Arrive at monads by going from composition of pure functions to composition of effectful functions 62  
60 Left and Right Folds - Comparison of a mathematical definition and a programmatic one 61  
61 Writer Monad for logging execution of functions 60  
62 The Expression Problem Part 1 60  
63 Function Applicative for Great Good of Palindrome Checker Function 60  
64 The Expression Problem Part 2 60  
65 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 2 60  
66 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 1 60  
67 A sighting of traverseFilter and foldMap in Practical FP in Scala 59  
68 A sighting of traverse_ in Practical FP in Scala 59  
69 Applicative Functor - Part 3 58  
70 Monad Fact #2 58  
71 The aggregate function - from sequential and parallel folds to parallel aggregation 57  
72 Folding Cheat Sheet #8 - Folding with monoids 56  
73 Monoids - Part 2 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 56  
74 Sequence and Traverse - Part 2 56  
75 Monad Fact #5 56  
76 Sierpinski Triangle - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit - Haskell and Scala 56  
77 Fusing Transformations of Strict Scala Collections with Views 56  
78 Side by Side - Scala and Java Adaptations of Martin Fowler’s Javascript Refactoring Example 54  
79 Folding Cheat Sheet Series Titles 54  
80 Folding Unfolded - Part 5 54  
81 ‘go-to’ general-purpose sequential collections - from Java To Scala 54  
82 Folding Cheat Sheet #7 - The three duality theorems of fold 54  
83 Functional Effects - Part 2 53  
84 Folding Cheat Sheet #5 - Folding a list right and left using Cons and Nil results in the identity and reverse functions 53  
85 Monads do not Compose 52  
86 Functional Effects - Part 1 51  
87 Sequence and Traverse - Part 3 50  
88 Sequence and Traverse - Part 1 50  
89 Ad hoc Polymorphism using Type Classes and Cats 50  
90 A sighting of sequence function in Practical FP in Scala 50  
91 Monad Transformers - Part 1 49  
92 Function Composition - forward composition versus backward composition 46  
93 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 1 46  
94 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 2 45  
95 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 2 44  
96 Functor Composition 43  
97 Symmetry in the interrelation of flatMap/foldMap/traverse and flatten/fold/sequence 43  
98 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 2 - Recursive Function Simplification - From 2^n Recursive Invocations To n Tail-Recursive Invocations Exploiting Self-Similarity 42  
99 Folding Cheat Sheet #9 - List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 42  
100 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 1 - The Original Version 41  
101 Addendum to `Monads do not Compose` 40  
102 Monad as Functor with pair of Natural Transformations 40  
103 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 4 - Interactive and Animated Dragon Creation 38  
104 List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 38  
105 Year when lambda functions were introduced in various languages 38  
106 The Nature of Complexity in John Ousterhout’s Philosophy of Software Design 37  
107 De Morgan's Laws are Monoid Homomorphisms 37  
108 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 2 - The Contemporary Version - An Introduction 34  
109 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 3 - Simplification Through Separation of Concerns - Rotation Without Matrix Multiplication 31  
110 Test Doubles - Terminology, Definitions and Illustrations - with Examples - Part 1 31  
111 Point-free or Die - Tacit Programming in Haskell 28  
112 Non-strict functions, bottom, and Scala by-name parameters 28  
113 ApplicativeError functions handling and recovering from errors: A mnemonic to recall their signatures from their names 23  
114 Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - from Procedural to Functional Programming - Part 1 22  
115 Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - from Procedural to Functional Programming - Part 2 16  
116 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to AI Coding Tool 'Claude Code' 14  
117 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to Github Copilot Chat - using Scala in IntelliJ IDEA 12  
118 AI Concepts - MCP Neurons 11  
119 Defining filter using (a) recursion (b) folding (c) folding with S, B and I combinators (d) folding with applicative functor and identity function 7  
120 The Bowling Game - From Imperative to Functional Programming - Part 1 6  
121 The Functional Programming Triad of fold, scan and iterate 5