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A Level Student Booster - Functional Programming (Pre-event materials)
In this online session on Functional Programming, students will embark on a journey through the core principles and practices of this paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids mutable data and changing state. Note: This is part of the AQA specification
By engaging with this event, participants will:
- Delve into the heart of functional programming, understanding how to craft programs in a way that emphasizes the use of pure functions.
- Learn about the role of functions as first-class citizens in this paradigm, which can be passed around, returned, or assigned just like any other value.
- Discover the power of recursion and how it serves as a potent alternative to traditional looping constructs in functional programming languages.
- Explore how functional programming languages are designed to encourage solutions that prevent side-effects, resulting in cleaner, more reliable code.
By the end of this session, students will be equipped to define complex problems and solutions in the functional style, write code that is free from side effects, and approach recursion with confidence, ready to implement these concepts in their programming projects.
These materials are shared only with Isaac Computer Science Booster participants in accordance with the Isaac Computer Science Terms of Use policy here: https://isaaccomputerscience.org/terms?examBoard=all&stage=all
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