Ona at the Nairobi Functional Programming Meetup

 Okal Otieno and Roy Rutto from Ona were the featured presenters at the inaugural Nairobi Functional Programming meetup. The meetup was conceived by Okal and Roy to “discuss the core concepts of functional programming, why use it, and experiences using it.” The iHub UX Lab graciously hosted.  Okal started off by explaining how functional thinking can help you write better software. Here is his list of further reading and slides:

• Why Functional Programming Matters [pdf]
• Pure Function
• Immutable JS
• Stream JS

Roy gave a great 20 minute introduction to Clojure, which is popular at Ona. Here is his list of useful resources and slides:

• Docs
• The Joy of Clojure
• Clojure for the brave and true
• Om – A ClojureScript interface to Facebook’s React
• How to be a frontend Ninja