FP Basics

Session for April 2016 FP North East Meetup in Newcastle

• Web: http://www.meetup.com/FP-North-East/
• April 2016 meetup: http://www.meetup.com/FP-North-East/events/229282155/
• Twitter: @FP_North_East
• GitHub: https://github.com/FP-North-East
• Slack: https://fp-north-east.slack.com/

Part 1: Higher order functions

• First read through the blog post: HOFs, closures, partial application and currying to solve the function environment problem in Scala
• My blog repo: https://github.com/darrenjw/blog (note that this repo also contains the SBT launcher)
• Do Exercise 1

Part 2: Functors and monads

• First read through the blog post: First steps with monads in Scala
• Do Exercise 2