* Welcome Venkat Subramaniam

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

This week, we're delighted to have Venkat Subramaniam helping to answer questions about the new book Functional Programming in Java: Harness the Power of Streams and Lambda Expression.
See the table of contents and an excerpt online.

The promotion starts Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 and will end on Friday, August 4th, 2023

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Pragmatic Press.


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Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing, and should be reserved for welcoming the author. Questions posted in this topic are subject to removal.

[Burk Hufnagel]

Venkat,
Welcome to the Ranch - or should I say "back to the Ranch"? Is this your first time visiting, or have you been here before?

Either way, welcome!

Burk

[Kiran Pai]

Hi Venkat,  does the book have any chapter on Kotlin basics please and how it can be used along with lambdas and streams to leverage the JVM capabilities to the maximum?

[Kiran Pai]

Hi Venkat. I have just shared the book here amid all my LinkedIn connections and groups :

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kiran-pai-8710267_hi-all-if-you-love-java-and-grew-up-on-activity-7092204212205309952-ooI_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

[Venkat Subramaniam]

Thank you.

@Burk, thank you, been here before

@Kiran, this book focuses on FP in Java. I've written a separate book that focuses on Kotlin and the details you've mentioned about: https://pragprog.com/titles/vskotlin/programming-kotlin/

[Liutauras Vilda]

Venkat Subramaniam, nice to see you back. Have a great week with some tricky interesting questions!

[Liutauras Vilda]

Just a reminder to others, please as questions in separate threads/topics, in different words, not in this thread.

Couple of reasons:
1. Asking question(s) here, you'd not have a chance to win a book. That's the rule.
2. All questions (potentially unrelated to each other) crammed to a single thread would make much harder for the author to answer them in an organised way. And to follow.

[Venkat Subramaniam]

Hi Majid,

The book does not touch on Reactive Programming since I want to stay focused on the topic of the book. The book does cover the pros and cons of parallel streams.

Thank you.

[Majid Hameed]

Thanks, Venkat for answering my questions.

Mods... I am not sure why they got removed from here?

[Liutauras Vilda]

Majid Hameed wrote:Mods... I am not sure why they got removed from here?

If you read very first post in this thread (by Jeanne Boyarsky), you'd see in bold:

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing, and should be reserved for welcoming the author. Questions posted in this topic are subject to removal.

[Majid Hameed]

Got that, thank you @Liutauras Vilda

PS: Sometimes the one in bold is the most distracting...

[Stephane Clinckart]

Hello Venkat,

Welcome to the Ranch

Interesting topic covered by your book.

Have a nice day

Stephane

[Adrian Grabowski]

Welcome Venkat!

I remember watching your talk on Devoxx Youtube video on lambdas and streams when I was just starting to learn how to program back in 2016, I had already covered basics of OOP by then and wanted to understand functional programming so I watched the whole video in a gym, while running on a treadmill! I think I passed my Oracle exam thanks to that video and consequently was able to get my first job. So, a big thank you!

[Venkat Subramaniam]

Thank you Adrian and best wishes for all things ahead.