Functional Programming Concepts

1. **this**
2. **immutable** data objects using a linter
3. **immutable** objects and **collections**
4. data transformations using core operations like **filter, map, sort, or reduce**
5. use statements like **if and switch** in a functional way
6. create **pipelines** and use **currying** to pass additional data
7. create and use **functors** and **monads**
