Chris Gillum, principal engineering manager at Microsoft, presented at QCon San Francisco on Serverless Programming Models in Azure Functions. In his presentation, he discussed two stateful ...

Moving from object-oriented to functional programming is a paradigm shift for developers, but these key principles explain why it's worth the effort.

Chapter 6: Functions and Functional Programming Substantial programs are broken up into functions for better modularity and ease of maintenance. Python makes it easy to define functions but also ...

We’ll start by creating small programs for our very own video game to show how statements Today, Carrie Anne is going to start our overview of the fundamental building blocks of programming ...

What is modular programming? Modular programming groups related sets of functions together into a module. The module is divided into an interface and an implementation. The module exports the ...

Festo’s Eric Rice explains two commonly used concepts “(software-defined automation” and “function integration”) in simple ...

S. N. Afriat, The Output Limit Function in General and Convex Programming and the Theory of Production, Econometrica, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Mar., 1971), pp. 309-339 ...

Programming is about actually accomplishing something, not about conforming with a model of the real world. It seems like advice we see every day now, as Java 8 matures and we see Java 9 features like ...

For C and C++ atomic operations didn’t become supported by the language itself until C11 and C++11 respectively, previously requiring built-in functions provided by the toolchain (e.g. GCC ...