Learn Java Functional Programming with Lambdas & Streams

Based on the course outline provided, here's a breakdown of the steps you will be following to learn about Functional Programming with Java:

Introduction to the Course

1. Course Overview: Understand what the course covers and its objectives.
2. Exploring Github Repo and Installations: Set up the necessary environment, including installing Java and exploring the GitHub repository for the course materials.

Introduction to Functional Programming with Java

1. Getting Started with Functional Programming with Java: Learn about functional programming concepts in Java and what distinguishes it from imperative programming.
2. Writing Your First Java Functional Program: Write your first program that incorporates functional programming principles in Java.
3. Improving Java Functional Program with filter: Enhance your program by filtering elements using lambdas.
4. Using Lambda Expression to enhance your Functional Program: Implement lambda expressions to further improve and simplify your functional programs.
5. Do Functional Programming Exercises with Streams, Filters and Lambdas: Practice writing functional programs that utilize streams, filters, and lambdas.
6. Using map in Functional Programs - with Exercises: Learn how to transform elements of a collection using the map operation and apply it through exercises.
7. Quick Review of Functional Programming Basics: Recap the key concepts of functional programming covered so far.

Playing with Streams

1. Learning Stream Operations - Calculate Sum using reduce: Understand how to use the reduce operation to calculate sums from streams.
2. Playing with reduce: Experiment with the reduce operation in different scenarios.
3. Exploring Streams with Puzzles in JShell: Use JShell to play with streams and solve puzzles.
4. Do Functional Programming Exercises with Streams and reduce: Complete exercises that involve using streams and the reduce method.
5. Learn Stream Operations - distinct and sorted: Learn how to make streams distinct (remove duplicates) and sort them.
6. Using Comparators to Sort Streams with sorted: Apply comparators to sort streams.
7. Collecting Stream Elements to List using collect: Collect stream elements into a list.
8. Reviewing Streams - Intermediate and Stream Operations: Review intermediate operations in streams.

Exploring Java Functional Interfaces and Lambdas

1. Getting Started with Functional Interfaces - Predicate, Consumer and Function: Understand the commonly used functional interfaces like Predicate, Consumer, and Function.
2. Do Exercises with Functional Interfaces - BinaryOperator: Practice using the BinaryOperator functional interface.
3. Doing Behavior Parameterization with Functional Programming: Learn how to parameterize behavior using functional interfaces.
4. Exploring Supplier and UnaryOperator Functional Interfaces: Explore other functional interfaces like Supplier and UnaryOperator.
5. Exploring BiPredicate, BiFunction, BiConsumer, and Primitive Functional Interfaces: Dive into bi-functional interfaces and primitive types.
6. Playing Puzzles with Functional Interfaces and Lambdas: Solve puzzles to reinforce your understanding of functional interfaces and lambdas.
7. Exploring Method References with Java: Learn how to use method references in Java.

Java Functional Programming with Lists

1. Joining Strings with joining and Playing with flapMap: Use the joining method and learn about the flapMap operation.
2. Creating Higher-Order Functions: Create higher-order functions that take functions as arguments or return them.
3. FP and Performance - Intermediate Stream Operations are Lazy: Understand how lazy evaluation improves performance in functional programming with streams.
4. Improving Performance with Parallelization of Streams: Learn how to parallelize stream operations for better performance.

Functional Programming makes Java Easy

1. Modifying lists with replaceAll and removeIf: Use advanced features of the List interface for efficient modification.
2. Playing with Files using Functional Programming: Apply functional programming concepts to file I/O operations.
3. Playing with Threads using Functional Programming: Utilize functional programming to handle concurrency and multi-threading in Java.
4. Using Functional Programming in Java Applications: Integrate functional programming techniques into real-world Java applications.

By following these steps, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of how to apply functional programming concepts in Java, from basic operations to advanced performance optimization techniques.