Swift, Functional Programming, and Does It Matter Tech Talk Video

Each month, one of the members of the team gives a Tech Talk, and by popular request we also stream these live.

Today in our November Tech Talk, tech editor Alexis Gallagher gave an excellent talk and Q&A on Swift, Functional Programming, and Does it Matter.

Here’s the video for anyone who didn’t get a chance to attend live!

Helpful Links

Here are some handy links related to the talk:

• Tech Talk Slides
• Swift Functional Programming Tutorial – Our tutorial on getting started with functional programming in Swift
• Functional Programming in Swift – Book by the folks form objc.io
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – Book on computer programming; teaches Scheme and functional programming
• Value of Values, The Language of The System – Videos from Rick Hickey, the inventor of Clojure, on the benefits of simplicity in untyped FP style
• Programming Languages Coursera Course – Introduces Standard ML, Scheme, and Ruby, and compares them in a deep and coherent way
• ReactiveCocoa – An ambitious project which among other things, brings functional influences into GUI development
• ReactiveCocoa Tech Talk Video – We had a tech talk on ReactiveCocoa as well – check it out!
• Om – An interesting project for developing GUIs in a functional style
• KZPlayground – Provides a playground-like behavior in Objective-C
• Functional JavaScript – Excellent book explaining how to functional programming in JavaScript.
• Little Schemer – Great cartoon-style intro to Scheme and FP
• Alexis Gallagher on Twitter

Want to Join Us Next Month?

Thanks again to Alexis for giving a great talk and Q&A, having the guts to present to a live audience :] And thank you to everyone who attended – we hope you enjoyed it!

Next month’s tech talk will be The Great CALayerTour with Scott Gardner – sign up here to join us.

Hope to see some of you there! :]