122 Decks Ordered By PDF Download Count - Highest First - Chse one - invert order

# Title Downloads  
1 The Expression Problem Part 2 3284  
2 The Debt Metaphor - Ward Cunningham in his 2009 YouTube video 2091  
3 The Nature of Complexity in John Ousterhout’s Philosophy of Software Design 1943  
4 Direct Style Effect Systems - The Print[A] Example - A Comprehension Aid 1323  
5 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 3 - Simplification Through Separation of Concerns - Rotation Without Matrix Multiplication 1114  
6 Kleisli Composition 1003  
7 List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 838  
8 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 1 - The Original Version 798  
9 Test Doubles - Terminology, Definitions and Illustrations - with Examples - Part 1 790  
10 Monad Laws Must Be Checked 734  
11 Folding Cheat Sheet #6 - Left and right folds and tail recursion 703  
12 Functional Core and Imperative Shell - Game of Life Example - Haskell and Scala 665  
13 N-Queens Combinatorial Puzzle meets Cats 659  
14 The Functional Programming Triad of Folding, Scanning and Iteration - A first example in Scala and Haskell 588  
15 Tagless Final Encoding - Algebras and Interpreters and also Programs 586  
16 Folding Cheat Sheet #1 - Folding over recursively defined data structures for natural numbers and lists 580  
17 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 2 547  
18 Lambda Expressions and Java 8 - Lambda Calculus, Lambda Expressions, Syntactic Sugar, First Class Functions 546  
19 Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - from Procedural to Functional Programming - Part 1 537  
20 The Uniform Access Principle 512  
21 The Functional Programming Triad of map, filter and fold 509  
22 Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 1 498  
23 A Sighting of filterA in Typelevel Rite of Passage 496  
24 Algebraic Data Types for Data Oriented Programming - From Haskell and Scala to Java 487  
25 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 1 - Recursive Function Rewrite - From Imperative Style in Pascal 64 To Functional Style in Scala 3 480  
26 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 1 469  
27 From Subtype Polymorphism To Typeclass-based Ad hoc Polymorphism - An Example 469  
28 Compositionality and Category Theory 465  
29 Sum and Product Types - The Fruit Salad & Fruit Snack Example 465  
30 Scala 3 enum for a terser Option Monad Algebraic Data Type 459  
31 Folding Cheat Sheet #2 - Programmatic and mathematical definitions of right fold and left fold 445  
32 Hand Rolled Applicative User Validation Code Kata 445  
33 Kleisli composition, flatMap, join, map, unit - implementation and interrelation - V2 updated for Scala 3 443  
34 Folding Cheat Sheet #7 - The three duality theorems of fold 436  
35 Folding Cheat Sheet #9 - List Unfolding - 'unfold' as the Computational Dual of 'fold', and how 'unfold' relates to 'iterate' 435  
36 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 2 - Recursive Function Simplification - From 2^n Recursive Invocations To n Tail-Recursive Invocations Exploiting Self-Similarity 432  
37 Folding Cheat Sheet #3 - The universal property of fold 428  
38 Function Applicative for Great Good of Leap Year Function 416  
39 Folding Cheat Sheet #8 - Folding with monoids 415  
40 Definitions of Functional Programming 414  
41 From Scala Monadic Effects to Unison Algebraic Effects 413  
42 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 413  
43 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 1 407  
44 Scala Left Fold Parallelisation - Three Approaches 406  
45 Refactoring: A First Example - Martin Fowler’s First Example of Refactoring, Adapted to Java 406  
46 Applicative Functor - Part 1 393  
47 Scala 3 by Example - Algebraic Data Types for Domain Driven Design - Part 2 384  
48 Nat, List and Option Monoids - From scratch - Combining and Folding - An example 381  
49 Monad Fact #3 379  
50 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 2 - Genuine versus Unfaithful Sieve 376  
51 Fusing Transformations of Strict Scala Collections with Views 364  
52 Functor Laws 361  
53 Point-free or Die - Tacit Programming in Haskell 352  
54 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 3 345  
55 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 2 - The Contemporary Version - An Introduction 342  
56 Monad as Functor with pair of Natural Transformations 337  
57 Refactoring: A First Example - Martin Fowler’s First Example of Refactoring, Adapted to Scala 337  
58 Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - from Procedural to Functional Programming - Part 2 336  
59 Left and Right Folds - Comparison of a mathematical definition and a programmatic one 336  
60 A sighting of traverseFilter and foldMap in Practical FP in Scala 335  
61 Natural Transformations 331  
62 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1 330  
63 ApplicativeError functions handling and recovering from errors: A mnemonic to recall their signatures from their names 328  
64 The Bowling Game - From Imperative to Functional Programming - Part 1 328  
65 A sighting of sequence function in Practical FP in Scala 327  
66 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 3 326  
67 Applicative Functor - Part 3 325  
68 The Monad Fact Series 324  
69 Quicksort - a whistle-stop tour of the algorithm in five languages and four paradigms 321  
70 Arrive at monads by going from composition of pure functions to composition of effectful functions 321  
71 Folding Unfolded - Part 4 320  
72 Folding Unfolded - Part 2 318  
73 Folding Unfolded - Part 3 315  
74 Monad Fact #4 314  
75 Writer Monad for logging execution of functions 312  
76 Computer Graphics in Java and Scala - Part 1b 311  
77 Monad Fact #1 311  
78 Sequence and Traverse - Part 1 310  
79 Monad Fact #2 308  
80 ‘go-to’ general-purpose sequential collections - from Java To Scala 304  
81 The Expression Problem Part 1 299  
82 The Sieve of Eratosthenes - Part 1 297  
83 Applicative Functor - Part 2 294  
84 The aggregate function - from sequential and parallel folds to parallel aggregation 292  
85 AI Concepts - MCP Neurons 292  
86 Monad Transformers - Part 1 290  
87 Folding Cheat Sheet #5 - Folding a list right and left using Cons and Nil results in the identity and reverse functions 290  
88 Sierpinski Triangle - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit - Haskell and Scala 287  
89 Monad Fact #6 283  
90 Folding Unfolded - Part 5 283  
91 A sighting of traverse_ in Practical FP in Scala 282  
92 Folding Unfolded - Part 1 282  
93 State Monad 281  
94 Functional Effects - Part 2 281  
95 Side by Side - Scala and Java Adaptations of Martin Fowler’s Javascript Refactoring Example 278  
96 Functional Effects - Part 1 274  
97 Function Applicative for Great Good of Palindrome Checker Function 272  
98 Monoids - Part 2 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 270  
99 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 2 270  
100 Functor Composition 265  
101 Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 4 - Interactive and Animated Dragon Creation 264  
102 Monoids - Part 1 - With examples using Scalaz and Cats 263  
103 Sequence and Traverse - Part 2 263  
104 Monad Fact #5 258  
105 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 2 256  
106 Sequence and Traverse - Part 3 255  
107 Function Composition - forward composition versus backward composition 251  
108 Game of Life - Polyglot FP - Haskell and Scala - Part 1 250  
109 Addendum to `Monads do not Compose` 250  
110 Folding Cheat Sheet Series Titles 248  
111 Year when lambda functions were introduced in various languages 244  
112 N-Queens Combinatorial Problem - Polyglot FP for Fun and Profit – Haskell and Scala - Part 4 242  
113 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to AI Coding Tool 'Claude Code' 241  
114 Monads do not Compose 230  
115 Ad hoc Polymorphism using Type Classes and Cats 222  
116 Symmetry in the interrelation of flatMap/foldMap/traverse and flatten/fold/sequence 221  
117 Abstracting over Execution with Higher Kinded Types, and how to remain Purely Functional 216  
118 Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to Github Copilot Chat - using Scala in IntelliJ IDEA 193  
119 De Morgan's Laws are Monoid Homomorphisms 183  
120 The Functional Programming Triad of fold, scan and iterate 151  
121 Non-strict functions, bottom, and Scala by-name parameters 150  
122 Defining filter using (a) recursion (b) folding (c) folding with S, B and I combinators (d) folding with applicative functor and identity function 78