118 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 134  
4 The Debt Metaphor - Ward Cunningham in his 2009 YouTube video 123  
5 Folding Unfolded - Part 3 116  
6 Definitions of Functional Programming 109  
7 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 1 109  
8 The Functional Programming Triad of map, filter and fold 107  
9 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 2 - Genuine versus Unfaithful Sieve 98  
10 Nat, List and Option Monoids - From scratch - Combining and Folding - An example 98  
11 Scala Left Fold Parallelisation - Three Approaches 98  
12 From Scala Monadic Effects to Unison Algebraic Effects 96  
13 Functional Core and Imperative Shell - Game of Life Example - Haskell and Scala 87  
14 Hand Rolled Applicative User Validation Code Kata 86  
15 Folding Cheat Sheet #1 - Folding over recursively defined data structures for natural numbers and lists 86  
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 77  
20 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1b 75  
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 Compositionality and Category Theory 71  
24 A Sighting of filterA in Typelevel Rite of Passage 71  
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 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 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 3 69  
29 Folding Unfolded - Part 2 67  
30 Quicksort - a whistle-stop tour of the algorithm in five languages and four paradigms 65  
31 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1 65  
32 Applicative Functor - Part 2 65  
33 Function Applicative for Great Good of Leap Year Function 65  
34 Folding Cheat Sheet #2 - Programmatic and mathematical definitions of right fold and left fold 64  
35 Monad Fact #3 64  
36 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 3 63  
37 Monoids - Part 1 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 62  
38 Algebraic Data Types for Data Oriented Programming - From Haskell and Scala to Java 62  
39 Applicative Functor - Part 1 62  
40 Monad Fact #1 62  
41 Kleisli composition, flatMap, join, map, unit - implementation and interrelation - V2 updated for Scala 3 61  
42 Lambda Expressions and Java 8 - Lambda Calculus, Lambda Expressions, Syntactic Sugar, First Class Functions 60  
43 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 1 60  
44 Sum and Product Types - The Fruit Salad & Fruit Snack Example 60  
45 Folding Unfolded - Part 1 59  
46 Kleisli Composition 58  
47 Monad Fact #6 58  
48 Functor Laws 58  
49 Folding Unfolded - Part 4 58  
50 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 4 58  
51 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 1 58  
52 The Uniform Access Principle 57  
53 Folding Cheat Sheet #3 - The universal property of fold 57  
54 Monad Fact #4 57  
55 Arrive at monads by going from composition of pure functions to composition of effectful functions 56  
56 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 2 56  
57 State Monad 56  
58 The Monad Fact Series 56  
59 Function Applicative for Great Good of Palindrome Checker Function 55  
60 Left and Right Folds - Comparison of a mathematical definition and a programmatic one 55  
61 Natural Transformations 54  
62 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 1 54  
63 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 2 54  
64 Writer Monad for logging execution of functions 54  
65 The Expression Problem Part 2 53  
66 Monad Fact #2 53  
67 A sighting of traverse_ in Practical FP in Scala 52  
68 The Expression Problem Part 1 52  
69 Applicative Functor - Part 3 52  
70 Folding Cheat Sheet #8 - Folding with monoids 51  
71 Fusing Transformations of Strict Scala Collections with Views 51  
72 A sighting of traverseFilter and foldMap in Practical FP in Scala 51  
73 Sierpinski Triangle - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit - Haskell and Scala 50  
74 Folding Cheat Sheet #7 - The three duality theorems of fold 50  
75 The aggregate function - from sequential and parallel folds to parallel aggregation 50  
76 Monad Fact #5 50  
77 Monoids - Part 2 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 49  
78 Side by Side - Scala and Java Adaptations of Martin Fowler’s Javascript Refactoring Example 48  
79 Folding Cheat Sheet Series Titles 48  
80 Folding Unfolded - Part 5 47  
81 Folding Cheat Sheet #5 - Folding a list right and left using Cons and Nil results in the identity and reverse functions 47  
82 ‘go-to’ general-purpose sequential collections - from Java To Scala 46  
83 Sequence and Traverse - Part 2 46  
84 Functional Effects - Part 1 45  
85 Functional Effects - Part 2 45  
86 Sequence and Traverse - Part 3 44  
87 A sighting of sequence function in Practical FP in Scala 44  
88 Sequence and Traverse - Part 1 44  
89 Monads do not Compose 44  
90 Ad hoc Polymorphism using Type Classes and Cats 44  
91 Monad Transformers - Part 1 42  
92 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 1 40  
93 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 2 40  
94 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 2 39  
95 Function Composition - forward composition versus backward composition 38  
96 Folding Cheat Sheet #9 - List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 38  
97 Symmetry in the interrelation of flatMap/foldMap/traverse and flatten/fold/sequence 37  
98 Functor Composition 36  
99 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 1 - The Original Version 35  
100 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 2 - Recursive Function Simplification - From 2^n Recursive Invocations To n Tail-Recursive Invocations Exploiting Self-Similarity 35  
101 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 4 - Interactive and Animated Dragon Creation 34  
102 Monad as Functor with pair of Natural Transformations 33  
103 Addendum to `Monads do not Compose` 33  
104 List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 32  
105 Year when lambda functions were introduced in various languages 32  
106 The Nature of Complexity in John Ousterhout’s Philosophy of Software Design 32  
107 De Morgan's Laws are Monoid Homomorphisms 31  
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 22  
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 11  
116 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to AI Coding Tool 'Claude Code' 6  
117 AI Concepts - MCP Neurons 5  
118 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to Github Copilot Chat - using Scala in IntelliJ IDEA 3