pel_daniel
Hi! I created some animations to explain what happens internally with map & reduce functions.
The code is open source. Any feedback is welcome !
https://lambdabricks.github.io/animating-hofs/
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OvermindDL1
Heh, that’s cool looking.
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grych
Nice, I finally understood reduce!
grych
It was a joke. Bad one, sorry!
Anyway, I like your animation and I am sure it is going to help to understand the functional approach. You might try to add more examples on reduce, like traversing the list of strings with counting the overall number of characters (to show that the reduced value doesn’t have to be the same type as an enumerable member), etc.
Great job!
pel_daniel
Great to hear it @grych !
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pel_daniel
A newer animation library that a lot of people recommend is theatrejs, I haven’t used it myself but maybe you can give it try