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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Password Confirmation Form Perfect

Posted by Jason Cornwall
Jason Cornwall
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Functional Programming

In the jQuery Basics course, specifically the last video for the dropdown navigation project, Andrew seems to be encapsulating most of the case in functions and reusing them in other functions as well. Is this an example of the functional programming paradigm?

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Mohammed Safiulla D
Mohammed Safiulla D
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Mohammed Safiulla D
Mohammed Safiulla D
17,927 Points

I think Andrew was just teaching us how to make our code modular and was emphasizing on the DRY principle(Do No Repeat Yourself). I don't know much about functional programming but it's basically a programming paradigm which treats every computation as evaluation of a function and avoids changing-state and mutable data (treats everything as constants). Here is a nice intro to learning functional programming in JS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-5obm1G_FY)