Functional Programming is one of the most incredible & powerful techniques a developer in any programming language can posess. It gives you a codebase that's more stable, better structured, easier to maintain and test, and better for understanding what your code actually does,

But - It has a tragically unfair reputation for being hard to understand. It really isn't, but when folks throw around quotes like "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" it can seem impossible.

In this talk, I'm going to look at the hisory of FP - where it came from, who invented it and why?

I'm going to break down all of this strange-looking terminology and explain - in simple terms - what it all actually means, any why it's useful.

You'll leave not only knowing what a Monad is, but why you need to start using them today!