From the course: Advanced C#: Functional Programming Patterns
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From the course: Advanced C#: Functional Programming Patterns
Understand Map and other concepts
In functional programming, higher-order functions like map, filter, reduce, bind, and fold are fundamental tools for transforming and manipulating data. They allow us to write concise, expressive code by abstracting common patterns of computation. To fully understand these functions and how they operate, we need to explore the concepts of sequences, lists, and functors. These are data structures and abstractions that higher-order functions work with, enabling powerful and flexible operations. In the context of functional programming, a sequence and a list are closely related, but not exactly the same. A sequence is a collection of elements that are arranged in a specific order. In functional programming, sequences are a common way to represent and process collections of data. They are typically evaluated lazily, meaning elements are computed as needed rather than all at once. Sequences are powerful because they allow us to represent potentially large or even infinite data sets in a…
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