Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy

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The start of the best-known category-theory course aimed at programmers, from its author.

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The first lecture of Bartosz Milewski's Category Theory for Programmers: why abstraction and composition matter, and what category theory offers programmers.

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