Burritos
A list of resources for functional programming (Functors, Monads, etc.)
Install / Use
/learn @EvanBurchard/BurritosREADME
Resources for Burrito Related Knowledge
Contribution Guidelines
- Open a PR or issue with a resource you like. That's it.
- Maybe we'll need curation or a better hierarchy/ranking at some point.
Folklore
The inspiration for discussing monads as not being burritos
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111009025202/http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/
An explanation of why they are:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111105014342/http://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html
Diagrams
- http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictures.html
Videos
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Z7Hq4fhN0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKdV1IgAaFc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsQeSzMdw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQ382QG-y4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAnLQ9jwN-E
JavaScript
- https://www.gitbook.com/book/drboolean/mostly-adequate-guide/details
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvgwKjTPMmM
- https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read
- https://rebootjeff.github.io/blog/2015/06/14/refactoring-towards-functional-programming-in-javascript/
- http://fr.umio.us/the-philosophy-of-ramda/
- http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028857.do
Libraries
- http://ramdajs.com/
- https://sanctuary.js.org/
- https://github.com/Avaq/fluture
- http://folktalejs.org/
- https://github.com/DrBoolean/pointfree-fantasy
Burrito Specs:
- https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land
- https://github.com/rpominov/static-land
Ruby
- http://www.slideshare.net/tokland/functional-programming-with-ruby-9975242
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTR__8RvgvM
- https://codon.com/programming-with-nothing (writes fizzbuzz with a lamda calculus implementation from procs)
Haskell
- https://wiki.haskell.org/Typeclassopedia
- http://learnyouahaskell.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEoruozy3mk
- http://haskellbook.com/
- http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-12-31-functional-education.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seVSlKazsNk
Articles
- http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/abstraction.html
Contributors
- Just(me) for now.
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