Functional Programming

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Functions are like values, can be passed and returned

Lambda Expression

Short-hand syntax for defining functions in Java

Stream

Sequence of elements

Stream API

A collection of methods in Java for processing streams of data in a functional manner

Intermediate Operations

Stream operations that produce another stream as output, such as filter, map, and flatMap

Terminal Operations

Stream operations that produce a single result, such as reduce, collect, and forEach

Optional class

Allow graceful handling of nulls

Functional Interface

Interfaces in Java that define a single abstract method, used as the basis for creating lambda expressions

Method References

Simplify creation of Lambda Expressions

Example Method Reference

Lambda "l -> System.out.println(l)" can be replaced with "System.out::println"