Swift Functional Programming

Bring the power of functional programming to Swift to develop clean, smart, scalable and reliable applications.

About This Book

• Written for the latest version of Swift, this is a comprehensive guide that introduces iOS, Web and macOS developers to the all-new world of functional programming that has so far been alien to them
• Get familiar with using functional programming alongside existing OOP techniques so you can get the best of both worlds and develop clean, robust, and scalable code
• Develop a case study on example backend API with Swift and Vapor Framework and an iOS application with Functional Programming, Protocol-Oriented Programming, Functional Reactive Programming, and Object-Oriented Programming techniques

Who This Book Is For

Meant for a reader who knows object-oriented programming, has some experience with Objective-C/Swift programming languages and wants to further enhance his skills with functional programming techniques with Swift 3.x.

What You Will Learn

• Understand what functional programming is and why it matters
• Understand custom operators, function composition, currying, recursion, and memoization
• Explore algebraic data types, pattern matching, generics, associated type protocols, and type erasure
• Get acquainted with higher-kinded types and higher-order functions using practical examples
• Get familiar with functional and non-functional ways to deal with optionals
• Make use of functional data structures such as semigroup, monoid, binary search tree, linked list, stack, and lazy list
• Understand the importance of immutability, copy constructors, and lenses

Dr. Fatih Nayebi has more than 15 years of industry experience in software engineering and architecture in various fields. He has developed numerous applications with Visual Basic, C++, C#, Java, MATLAB, Python, Objective-C, and Swift. He has been designing and developing enterprise and consumer iOS applications since the release of first iOS SDK. Heis also an enthusiastic Node, Scala, and Haskell developer.Aside from industry, Fatih earned his Ph.D. degree in software engineering from École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec by researching on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, and Machine Learning.His specialties include applied predictive and optimization models, human-computer interaction, functional programming, machine learning, and mobile application architecture and development.Fatih currently works as a Director, Consulting at CGI Group Inc, Montreal, and continues to his academic research and publications as a postdoctoral researcher at École de technologie supérieure.You can find him talking on Swift and Functional Programming at meetups such as http