The "Thinking functionally" series

This series of posts will introduce you to the fundamentals of functional programming – what does it really mean to “program functionally”, and how this approach differs from object oriented or imperative programming.

1. Thinking Functionally: Introduction
A look at the basics of functional programming
2. Mathematical functions
The impetus behind functional programming
3. Function Values and Simple Values
Binding not assignment
4. How types work with functions
Understanding the type notation
5. Currying
Breaking multi-parameter functions into smaller one-parameter functions
6. Partial application
Baking-in some of the parameters of a function
7. Function associativity and composition
Building new functions from existing ones
8. Defining functions
Lambdas and more
9. Function signatures
A function signature can give you some idea of what it does
10. Organizing functions
Nested functions and modules
11. Attaching functions to types
Creating methods the F# way
12. Worked example: A stack based calculator
Using combinators to build functionality