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Book ID Asin: 1937785467
Book Title: Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power Of Java 8 Lambda Expressions
Book Author: Venkat Subramaniam
Book Format: unknown Book Price: unknown
Book Category: Books, Computers & Technology, Programming and unknown
Book Rating: 83 ratings

Book Product Detail

• Best Sellers Rank: #1,181,237 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #93 in Functional Software Programming
  • #95 in Parallel Computer Programming
  • #333 in Software Design Tools

• Customer Reviews:
  4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings

Book Review

Name: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If Venkat wrote it, buy it - you will not be disappointed!
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2015
Review: An amazing and engaging author. This book does an excellent job explaining how to take advantage of Functional Programming now that it's here in Java 8. Venkat is a rare creature, who has not only a deep understanding of the inner working of Java and program languages in general, but also ENTERTAINS as he explains. If you've been lucky enough to see Venkat present on this subject, you'll find the same humorous, self-effacing approach in his writing. If you haven't seen him, Google! You won't be disappointed.

Functional Programming in Java 8 is a paradigm shift - this book helps the java programmer understand this new way of thinking about how we compose our objects to benefit from FP. As a Java Professional of many years, this book really helped me understand this new way (in Java) to write robust, reusable, and efficient code.

Name: Seattle Buyer
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Shallow and Annoying
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 2014
Review: I like Java 8's new functional programming (FP) features, but I don't like this book. The book is shallow. Mainly he just writes simple examples and then repeats in prose what the code does.

The author's constant hyping and cheering for the new FP features becomes annoying fast. He over uses adjectives like, "powerful", "easy", and "effortless". The new features are nice, but they're not that much more powerful than Java already was. Any program you can write in Java 8, you can also write in Java 7 or 6 or 5 ...

Java's new FP features can make code simpler in some cases, which is good. But these new features can also make the code harder to understand. It's possible to make code too concise - fit too much on a single line (as some programmers can't help themselves from doing). Unfortunately, this can makes code harder to understand by someone who must maintain it later. The FP features should be used with care.

I didn't realize that Amazon has a seven day return policy on Kindle books. Had I known this, I would've returned it.

I don't recommend this book or author.

Name: Rony Atoun
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great read by a vet smart writer
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 2, 2017
Review: A clear and useful explanation of both Functional and reactive programming in Java 8. As a bonus Venkat has a great sense of humor and fun writing style.

Name: Carlos
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good book
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2016
Review: This book it's a good introductory book to the functional programming paradigm in java.

Name: Gyuhang Shim
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I love this book.
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 24, 2014
Review: This book is well written, detailed examples and user friendly explanation. But it lacks more detailed explanations for lambda.
This book is not for novice but intermediate or higher.

Name: JR
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Essential for your programming tool box
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2015
Review: Finally, an excellent side by side demonstration of the old procedural style with the new functional style. This book explains what functional programming means, and why it's important, while introducing the new Java 8 features. You can't go wrong with this book.

Name: me
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: alright
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 16, 2014
Review: I was expecting something else than what I got, I was hoping for kind of a beginners book on Java 8 and this was not that book. I might posit that I got something other than what I expected and thus my disappointment with the book. This book is for the advanced level for those practicing java.

Name: Harish Kannarao
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2014
Review: Very good insight into Java 8

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