Functional Programming Tutorial

What is Functional Programming?

Functional programming languages are uniquely designed to manage symbolic computation and list processing applications. Functional programming designed on the basis of mathematical functions. Following are the examples of functional programming languages include: Lisp, Python, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, etc. This tutorial let you know about the basic concepts of functional programming languages in general. It also provides a comparative analysis of object-oriented programming and functional programming language in every example.

Audience

Functional programming tutorial is useful to the readers who are able to understand the basic concepts of functional programming. It is a very basic tutorial and it has been designed for the beginners.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of Computer Programming terminologies in general and a good exposure to any programming language such as C, C++, or Java.