Programming with Monads

Monads are quite unheard of in imperative style of programming. Monads, however, play an interesting roll in a purely functional programming language. Come to this session if you're heard of monads and wondered what in the world they were.

What are monads? Why care about them? Where you've used them before. Types of monads. Building your own monads.


About Venkat Subramaniam

Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. Venkat is also an adjunct faculty and teaches CS courses remotely at the University of Houston. He is author of ".NET Gotchas," coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning "Practices of an Agile Developer," author of "Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer" and "Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual Machine" (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

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