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 **Duration**: 90 mins\\
 **Description**: \\
-Transducers - a portmanteau of ‘transform reducers’ - are a new functional programming concept
+Transducers - a portmanteau of 'transform reducers' - are a new functional programming concept
 introduced into the Clojure programming language. Although transducers are actually pretty
-straightforward in retrospect, wrapping your brain around them, especially if you’re not already a
+straightforward in retrospect, wrapping your brain around them, especially if you're not already a
 competent Clojureist, can be challenging.\\
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-In this session, we introduce transducers by implementing them from scratch in everybody’s favourite
+In this session, we introduce transducers by implementing them from scratch in everybody's favourite
-executable pseudocode, Python. We’ll start with the familiar staples of functional programming, map(),
+executable pseudocode, Python. We'll start with the familiar staples of functional programming, map(),
-filter() and reduce(), and derive transducers from first principles. We’ll work towards a set of general
+filter() and reduce(), and derive transducers from first principles. We'll work towards a set of general
-tools which work with eager collections, lazy ‘pull’ sequences, and ‘push’ event streams. Along the way
+tools which work with eager collections, lazy 'pull' sequences, and 'push' event streams. Along the way
-we’ll cover stateful transducers and transducer composition, demonstrating that transducers are both
+we'll cover stateful transducers and transducer composition, demonstrating that transducers are both
 more general, and more fundamental, than the functional programming tools baked into Python and
 many other languages.\\
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-By the end of this session, not only should transducers make sense to you, but you’ll have a recipe for
+By the end of this session, not only should transducers make sense to you, but you'll have a recipe for
 implementing transducers in your own favourite programming language.\\
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