‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

In this article, I'm going to look at the JavaScript data-binding library Knockout.js. I'll expand on my previous article by removing the external templating library and using Knockout to bind and ...