Re:Ask HN: How to explain functional programming to my 13-ye...
by atmosx on Thursday December 10, 2015 @04:18PM
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I didn't want post a huge comment so I made a gist[1]. This is an excerpt from Peter Cooper's book "Ruby: From novice to professional" which is the best ruby book for non-programmers IMHO.
You can sugar-coat the story accordingly. It doesn't explain the entire concept, but gives a quick glance at the difference. I am not sure it's going to work or if it's exactly what you need. If you try though, I'd like you to share the results with the rest of us :-)
You can sugar-coat the story accordingly. It doesn't explain the entire concept, but gives a quick glance at the difference. I am not sure it's going to work or if it's exactly what you need. If you try though, I'd like you to share the results with the rest of us :-)
[1] https://gist.github.com/atmosx/85f5aced1f0f5859130a