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How functional programming helped me recognise patterns and concepts in mathematics

I've never been strong at mathematics, and to this day I don't believe you need to be a skilled mathematician to be a good developer, but as time has gone on I've found more and more value in being able to understand and implement algorithms and expressions, which are fundamentally

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Marc Costello Aug 6, 2016 • 6 min read
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Elixir Connect4

elixirConnect4 repository At work, we use Connect4 as our technical test, which we send out to possible candidates. The candidate must write a working implementation of Connect4 as a console application. So there is no real focus on graphics, and to limit complexity (and the time it takes to build)

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Marc Costello Oct 29, 2015 • 6 min read
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A functional choice

To begin a story, a while back, I wanted to learn a functional programming language. I wanted to find out just how different the functional paradigm is to the imperative paradigm. Previously the closest I got to functional programming came from JavaScript, and I’ve always found it so much

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Marc Costello Feb 28, 2015 • 7 min read
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