Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript - Anjana Vakil - JSUnconf

[madwilliamflint]

I've been programming for almost 40 years. That's the best explanation of map/reduce I've ever seen.

[recursiveackermann]

This is possibly one of the best 30 minutes of my life as a software engineer. Thank you.

[Helvanic]

As a programmer that already knows about those subjects, I wish somebody would have explained them to me that way the first time I looked into it. Great talk.

[vim]

She's not like a bunch of pedantic dudes who talk around and pretend as if they are intelligent, but she thoroughly understands the core and generously and effectively delivers her knowledge. I wish she was my professor.

[ToveriJuri]

She does a very good job at introducing the very basic concept behind FP and she's easy to listen to. Excellent video.

[euihyunan]

This is why i like listening to students presentations. You actually learn more from the students because they understand what we probably had a hard time in.

[Eltramicst]

"About 6 months ago, I knew nothing about functional programming and very little about Javascript, " she says while giving a talk about functional programming to an audience of programmers at a Javascript conference..

That is insanely impressive.

[iamcisneros]

Completely cool at all aspects... how she explains, how she interacts with the audience, how she managed saying "i dont feel qualified to talk about non-blocking, promises..." and how she says "fight fight fight" haha the best :)

[Codetutor-DemystifyCoding]

I am a programmer, I know and use the concepts that she is talking about in my daily work. But I was still hooked to the way she was explaining these things. The fact that she doesn't come from typical programming back ground is something that makes her communication her USP. Very well explained!!!

[minutesvideography]

Great wisdom ! She accept she don't know a lot but still confidently delivered what she know. Appreciated!

[pb]

Best explanation I've heard so far, an important advantage of FP that she didn't mention is that it becomes much easier to test your code (unit testing), because there is no shared state.

[paullikethesaint]

Good talk. She's an excellent communicator which I'm sure has a lot to do with being other things prior to being a software engineer.

[JohnDavidHarbison]

Such a good job! I had no intention of watching the entire video - but here I am 30 mins later, and I would totally have watched more. Great intro that has me seriously considering these design patterns for my future JS programs!

[viditkothari]

From the future: 2019
This video is so much relevant today (if not more than ever), specially with React trending, these coding style, techniques are so widely used and benefitted from.

Also, her explanation are so clear & concise. This is my 5th watch since 2016 :)

[lokeshbramhe]

She does a very good job at introducing the very basic concept behind FP and she's easy to listen to. Excellent video, she's a great communicator

[aduonye]

Wow! What a clear and concise explanation, she carried us along the entire discussion with her presentation, and now I get a hang of functional programming and understanding these buzz words like a pure function, mutability, closure, structural sharing, and more.

[hiankun]

Never thought that one day I will get the concept of functional programming from a JS conference video. Great talk and explanation.

[profmo]

I appreciate that programmers are finally embracing the virtues of functional programming. Back in the 80s and 90s, functional programming was seen as esoteric. Now it is mainstream. I hope this means that within 20 years, programming using higher-order type theory will become main stream.

[tack]

The best explanation of what functional programming is that I have heard. Thanks a lot, Anjana.

[sleeplessdev]

By teaching a subject you recently learned, it's more fresh in your mind, you have simpler examples and gotcha's to share, and you don't get bogged down in all the details and exceptions to the rule that an expert in the field might. I wish more things were taught this way.