functional/_index.md

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title: Learn Functional Programming
description: >
    These notebooks introduce powerful ideas from functional programming
    in Python, taking inspiration from Haskell and category theory.
tracking: 51
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Using only Python's standard library, these lessons construct
functional programming concepts from first principles.
Topics include:

-   Currying and higher-order functions
-   Functors, Applicatives, and Monads
-   Category theory fundamentals

## Contributors

Thanks to our notebook authors:

- métaboulie

and reviewers:

- [Srihari Thyagarajan](https://github.com/Haleshot)