Functional programming?
I have recently stumbled across a couple of nice blog posts about programming.
Charles Scalfani has written a great piece on the limits that can be placed on programmers, and why limits are a good thing.
https://medium.com/@cscalfani/why-programmers-need-limits-3d96e1a0a6db#.mlcnd9kxn
Scalfani advocates functional programming because it helps to address many of the problems that software developers (and software projects) face.
So on that note, he has also written a good piece on how to become a functional programmer.
And who would have thought - Java has gone functional!
https://medium.com/coding-with-clarity/understanding-the-optional-monad-in-java-8-e3000d85ffd2