Sergio Rodrigo Royo

Software developer interested in Functional Programming and Domain Driven Design. He has worked building web and mobile applications in two different countries.

Sergio loves to try different flavours of programming. He has worked mainly with Java, but has recently discovered Scala and Kotlin and developed a big interest in functional languages such as Haskell. He believes in working with different technologies as a way to improve his programming skills.

Sergio embraces TDD and Simple Design in order to build clean and maintainable code.

Publications

By Sergio Rodrigo Royo
Posted 25 Jan 2018

Lambda Calculus in Clojure (Part 2)

In Part 1, we built a boolean algebra using Church Encoding. In this post, we are going to reuse some of the previous work to build a similar algebra, this time for numerals. Church numerals In the algebra we built in the previous post, Church...

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By Sergio Rodrigo Royo
Posted 14 Dec 2017

Lambda Calculus in Clojure (Part 1)

Lambda Calculus is the smallest programming language. As we saw on my previous post, the only building blocks available are functions, variables and expressions. There are no built-in primitive values or operations. How can we then solve real-world problems using Lambda Calculus? In this post,...

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by Alex Knight

By Sergio Rodrigo Royo
Posted 24 Nov 2017

Falling into Machine Learning

Recently, I rediscovered my passion for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, which I used to hate during my degree in Computer Sciences. Lately, I’ve been focused on Software Design, Automated Testing, Microservices, and Functional Programming. I also love learning new programming languages, so I’ve been wondering...

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By Sergio Rodrigo Royo
Posted 09 Nov 2017

Lambda Calculus for mortal developers

Lambda Calculus sounds like an arcane term that only functional programming wizards can understand. Nothing could be further from the truth. We use Lambda Calculus everyday when we program. It is the most reducible form of all Functional Programming languages; the primitive building block of...

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By Sergio Rodrigo Royo
Posted 16 Oct 2016

Setting up Scala on Android

Scala can be used to build Android applications, as an alternative to Java or Kotlin. Unlike them, setting up an Android project in Scala with SBT is not straightforward, and can give us some headaches to get it right. To show how this can be...

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By Sergio Rodrigo Royo
Posted 27 Sep 2016

Bowling Kata in Kotlin

Screencast - Bowling Kata in Kotlin Sergio Rodrigo implements the Bowling Game kata in Kotlin using TDD, showing some of the features of the language, such as support for Functional Programming (Higher Order Functions, Lambdas and built-in functions), Pattern Matching, Extension Functions, Expression Bodies, and...

Always in a Rush by Michael Gil

By Sergio Rodrigo Royo
Posted 04 Jul 2016

The Rush Age

We live in the rush age. We are literally overwhelmed by the amount of things we have to do, both at work and outside it. We leave work and have a bunch of emails, Facebook notifications, tweets, text messages (among others), waiting for response. Even...

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