Functional techniques are very useful for clarity, conciseness and maintainable coding practices. In this course, you will learn some of the functional programming techniques supported in jаvascript and how to apply them to make your own code easier to read and less repetitive. Afterwards you'll be able to tell the difference between functional and imperative code, and add recursion to your development tool belt

At a minimum, students' should be familiar with closures, scope passing functions as values, and jаvascript basic concepts. A student who has completed Introduction to jаvascript and the jаvascript: Next Steps course will have all the knowledge necessary to benefit from the techniques in this course
Once you've completed this course, why not check out Introducing TypeScript. This jаvascript compiler is growing in popularity especially since the rise of ES6 and the latest Angular definitely one to check out