Fatih Nayebi - Swift Functional Programming

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First published: June 2016

Second edition: April 2017

Production reference: 1210417

ISBN 978-1-78728-450-0

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Dr. Fatih Nayebi has more than 15 years of industry experience in software engineering and architecture in various fields. He has developed numerous applications with Visual Basic, C++, C#, Java, MATLAB, Python, Objective-C, and Swift. He has been designing and developing enterprise and consumer iOS applications since the release of first iOS SDK. He is also an enthusiastic Node, Scala, and Haskell developer.

Aside from industry, Fatih earned his Ph.D. degree in software engineering from cole de technologie suprieure, Universit du Qubec by researching on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, and Machine Learning.

His specialties include applied predictive and optimization models, human-computer interaction, functional programming, machine learning, and mobile application architecture and development.

Fatih currently works as a Director, Consulting at CGI Group Inc, Montreal, and continues to his academic research and publications as a postdoctoral researcher at cole de technologie suprieure.

You can find him talking on Swift and Functional Programming at meetups such as http://www.meetup.com/swift-mtl/, on GitHub at https://github.com/conqueror, on Twitter as @thefatih, and on Instagram as @thefatih.

Giordano Scalzo is a developer with 20 years of programming experience, since the days of ZXSpectrum. He has worked in C++, Java, .NET, Ruby, Python and in a ton of other languages he has forgotten the names of.
After years of backend development, over the past five years, Giordano has developed extensively for iOS, releasing more than 20 apps, apps that he wrote for clients, enterprise application, or for his own company.

Currently, he is a contractor in London, where, through his company, Effective Code Ltd, http://effectivecode.co.uk, he delivers code for iOS aiming at quality and reliability.

In his spare time, when he is not crafting retro game clones for iOS, he writes his thoughts on http://giordanoscalzo.com.

Id like to thank my better half, Valentina, who lovingly supports me in everything I do: without you, none of this would have been possible.

Thanks to my bright future, Mattia and Luca, for giving me lots of smiles and hugs when I needed them.
Finally, my gratitude goes to my mum and dad, who gave my curiosity and the support to follow my passions, begun one day when they bought me a ZXSpectrum.

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