The Art of Functional Programming
summary
Builds a recursive tiling system that produces checkerboards, a four-part “pants” pattern and rotating clock tiles as SVG output, using recursion and function composition to eliminate loops and model state as data. Keeps side effects on an imperative outer shell that writes innerHTML and isolates DOM work. Adds deterministic randomness via seeded Simplex noise so art is repeatable. Code is slated for Observable and the generator demonstrably renders the described SVG art.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Functional programming beauty
- 2:53Pure functions
- 6:48Handling side effects
- 11:06Recursion
- 13:35State as data
- 23:04Pseudorandomness in code
- 29:48Summary
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