A Beginner’s Guide to Functional Programming in C#

Presented by Eric Lippert

Functional programming has made a real comeback in the last ten years, but there are a lot of line-of-business C# developers or novice developers who are unclear on some of the fundamental concepts. In 45 minutes, Eric Lippert covers the history of functional programming, how it differs from imperative programming, what sorts of problems functional programming is good at solving, and how LINQ uses ideas from functional programming. Download the slide deck.

Eric Lippert is a developer on the C# analysis team at Coverity. Before starting at Coverity in January of 2013, he was a Principal Developer at Microsoft on the C# compiler team and a member of the C# language design team. In his sixteen years at Microsoft, he also worked on the design and implementation of VBScript, JScript, Windows Script Host, and Visual Studio Tools for Office. He was also once on the ECMA committee which standardizes the JavaScript language.