Refactoring to Functional Style
Most of us, including your humble speaker, have been very used to imperative style. We all have read about functional programming, seen examples, and have even written code using that style. Yet, the journey to writing functional style seems rather unnatural often times. When refactoring existing code, we may be tempted to transform the code to functional style, but how do we approach that.
In this presentation we will take six different problems, all with unit tests, and refactor the working code from imperative to functional style. Along the way we will discuss the thought process, the approaches, the APIs that will help with that transformation of code.
About Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
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