Implementing for Robustness (cont’d)
Focus: Robustness Description: Set robustness goals, and consider what should happen, and what should not happen in the face of likely (and less likely) errors. In the previous post we…
Reducing Your Troubles
In this post we’ll continue the refactoring of our now-a-bit-more-elegant Scheme code for doing reports in our hypothetical Gift Card scenario. We will discover another fundamental building block in the…
Select Your Weapon
In this post we’ll continue the refactoring of our less-than-elegant Scheme code for doing reports in our hypothetical Gift Card scenario. We will discover another fundamental building block in the…
Fun with Functions
Now we are going to write some Scheme code in order to show off some features of functional programming. (As stated earlier, I’m actually using the Scheme-dialect Racket, but that…
A Functional Language
In this post I show the basics of the language Scheme, in order to be able to use Scheme in later posts to prove a few points on functional programming…
A Paradigm Shift
I started out, like most programmers do, writing imperative code. In recent years, however, I have begun to understand the power of functional programming. By understanding the thinking from a…