What is a Higher Order Function?

Learn what higher-order functions are and why they are important in functional programming, and code some examples in Python and JavaScript.

Juan Cruz Martinez
Level Up Coding
Published in
6 min readJan 23, 2023

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When we think of functions in any programming language, we think of reusable code abstracted into a separate block that performs specific tasks. Such functions can take…

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