Turning recursive file system traversal into Stream

When I was learning programming, back in the days of Turbo Pascal, I managed to list files in directory usingFindFirst, FindNext and FindClose functions.…

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Java SE 8 new features tour: Functional programming with Lambda Expression

This article of the “Java SE 8 new features tour” series will deep dive into understanding Lambda expressions. I will…

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Is it Imperative that you learn Functional Programming with Java 8?

I’ve recently been taking look at Java 8 and have got hold of “Java 8 In Action” published by Manning.…

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Java 8 functional interfaces – random musings implementing a Scala type

In one of the assignments of the Functional programming with Scala course a type called Terrain is introduced – Terrain represents…

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Good use of Closures

Not long ago, in a blog post, I explained what Closure were in Groovy. This blog post will explain one…

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Functional Programming with Java 8 Lambda Expressions – Monads

What is a monad?: A monad is a design pattern concept used in mostly functional programming languages like lisp or…

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Functional style in Java with predicates – Part 2

In the first part of this article we introduced predicates, which bring some of the benefits of functional programming to…

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Functional style in Java with predicates – Part 1

You keep hearing about functional programming that is going to take over the world, and you are still stuck to…

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Functional programming with Map and Fold in Java

In functional programming, Map and Fold are two extremely useful operators, and they belong to every functional language. If the…

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