What Is Functional Programming?

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In a lot of these component driven frameworks, like reactans felt or we're not, it's based off the idea of a high order function. The main idea with functional programming is that you are writing pure functions that do not have what are called side effects. Instead of utilizing classes, instead of writing things using class in having class methods, but your writing is a function that does something and returns o value.

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes try to stump each other with coding interview questions like what is a higher order component? What is functional programming? And more!

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00:26 Welcome
01:47 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response
03:00 Sponsor: Sentry
04:10 What is a higher order component?
05:34 What is functional programming?
09:00 What’s the purpose of cache busting and how do you achieve it?
Wes’ course for Beginner JavaScript
10:37 What is short circuit evaluation?
13:19 What is a closure?
15:49 What is the reason for wrapping the contents of a JavaScript source file in a function that is then invoked?
17:30 Can you describe how CSS specificity works?
20:15 How does prototypal inheritance differ from classical inheritance?
23:56 What is the difference between a parameter and an argument?