Scratching the Surface of Higher Order Functions in JavaScript

By Medium - 2020-12-06

Description

Everyone has their reasons for pursuing a career in programming no matter the language. Some learn it because they love it and it mimics they way they think anyways. Some do it for the money. Others…

Summary

A Beginner’s level guide to understanding Higher Order Functions as well as what’s under the hood with .map(), .filter(), and .reduce().
I will got over what the function looks like from scratch and then what it looks like with the Higher Order Function.
Funny picture that breaks down each method of .map(), .filter(), and .reduce() You can see that the first option — From Scratch — has much more to it.
I use total and currentVal to keep things straight in my own head.

Topics

Machine_Learning (0.18)
UX (0.13)
NLP (0.11)

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