Javascript as a functional language

Question

I am looking get to grips with functional programming concepts.

I\'ve used Javascript for many years for client side scripting in web applications and apart from usi

Answer 1

I would recommend reading The Little Schemer, which is a fairly slim book about recursion and is a good introduction to the functional style. Whilst it's focused on Scheme it can easily be applied to JavaScript, see http://javascript.crockford.com/little.html. I found it really helpful in my javascript development, although it gets quite tricky towards the end.