With the advent of LINQ, C# has gotten a significant exposure to functional programming. However, functional programming in C# is not restricted to the use of extension methods, lambdas and immutable classes. There are a lot of practices that haven’t been adopted as widely because there’s not much of native language support for them in C#. Still, they can be extremely beneficial should you incorporate them into your day-to-day work. This course, Applying Functional Principles in C#, will show them to you. You will learn the fundamental principles behind functional programming, why they are important and how to apply them in practice. Specific topics you’ll cover include refactoring to an immutable architecture, avoiding exceptions, primitive obsession, how to handles failures and input errors, and more. By the end of this course, you will have a much more comprehensive understanding of why and how to use functional programming.
Author Name: Vladimir Khorikov
Author Description:
Vladimir Khorikov is the author of the book Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns: https://amzn.to/2QXS2ch He has been professionally involved in software development for over 15 years, including mentoring teams on the ins and outs of unit testing. He’s also the founder of the Enterprise Craftsmanship blog, where he reaches 500 thousand software developers yearly. He started as an adviser on general programming topics, but lately has shifted his focus to unit testing with a central … more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Introduction
  11mins
• Refactoring to an Immutable Architecture
  34mins
• Refactoring Away from Exceptions
  32mins
• Avoiding Primitive Obsession
  20mins
• Avoiding Nulls with the Maybe Type
  26mins
• Handling Failures and Input Errors in a Functional Way
  16mins
• Putting It All Together
  65mins