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Flashcards by Lyndsay Hope, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lyndsay Hope
about 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Functional Programming Paradigm | Where each line of code is made up of calls to a function Each function may be made up of other functions, or result in a value |
| Declarative programming languages | These declare or specify what properties a result should have: results are logical outcomes of functions. (unlike procedural languages which specify steps to take to find a result) |
| Function type | 'Function type' describes the way in which the expression is created. EG integer of the domain and codomain, where f: A → B is the function type |
| Domain | inputs of a function which are a set of data of the same type |
| Codomain | the set of values from which outputs of a function must be drawn |
| First-class object | an object that can be passed as an argument, or returned as a result of a function call |
| Higher order function | a function that creates a function as its output or takes a function as its input eg map, fold, filter eg map (*2) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| Function application | the process of calculating a function result by passing it data to produce a result |
| Function composition | combining multiple functions to create more complex functions |
| Map function | generates an output list from an input list by applying a function to each element in the input list ie it maps element from Input List to element from Output List |
| Filter function | creating a subset based on specified criteria eg all even numbers |
| Reduce / fold function | a recursive method of reducing a list to a single element by combining the elements using a function eg a list of numbers you wish to add |
| List | a collection of data items of the same type |
| Identifier | a lists's name |
| Tail | every element in a list apart from the head tail [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| Head | the first element in a list head [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| Empty list | a list with no elements in it [ ] |
| Side effects | EG • Modifying a value • Modifying a data structure in-place • Throwing an exception or halting with an error • Printing to the console or reading user input • Reading from or writing to a file |
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