Functional Programming Foundations

A comprehensive five-day beginner programme covering data, decisions, collections, functions, errors, algorithms and complete program design.

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beginner level English 37h 20m total In-person

36 lessons

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What you'll learn

Recognise and use numbers, text, booleans, lists and missing values

Create clear immutable variables and choose appropriate operators

Separate value-producing expressions from side-effecting statements

Build conditions and decision trees for multi-path business rules

Use loops, lists, records and nested data structures

Design reusable functions with parameters, return values and safe scope

Identify syntax, runtime, logic and type errors

Keep input and output at the edges of a functional program

Explain and apply search, maximum and simple sorting algorithms

Design, test and review a complete program from a real-world brief

Requirements

No previous programming experience is required
A notebook or digital note-taking tool
Time to complete the guided exercises and final assessment
Curiosity and a willingness to solve problems step by step

About this course

Learn programming from first principles without assuming any previous coding experience. This five-day candidate course uses plain English, relatable analogies, worked examples, guided exercises and two complete design projects. You will learn how data flows through a program, how functions transform it, and why functional programming keeps variables immutable and side effects at the edges. The learning path follows the supplied Candidate Edition handbook. Each day contains concept lessons, guided practice, a knowledge check and independent work. By the end, you will be able to design a complete program from input through processing to output, explain your decisions, anticipate common errors and test the result. Recommended pace: five intensive learning days plus orientation and final assessment—approximately 38 hours in total. Self-paced learners may complete one module per week.

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