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CPSC 370 — Functional and Logic Programming — Fall 2017

This page summarises information about CPSC 370.

Prerequisites
A grade of C- or better in cpsc 141 and cpsc 281; or permission of instructor.
Important Information

Important information may be posted here from time to time.

2017-08-20
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Accommodations

Students in this course who, because of a disability, may have a need for special academic accommodations should discuss this with the instructor, or contact the Access Resource Centre located in the Teaching & Learning Building in Room 10-1048.

Grading Scheme1 and Dates:
WhatWhenValue
First ClassWed, Sep 06
Thanksgiving Mon, Oct 09
Midterm I Wed, Oct 12 20%
Last Drop Day Thu, Oct 26
Midterm IIWen, Nov 16 20%
Mid Semester BreakThu, Nov 10
Remembrance DayMon, Nov 13
Course EvaluationFri, Nov 24
Last ClassFri, Dec 01
Homework from time to time 25%
Final
Wed, Dec 13
18:00–21:00
35%
Programming Assigments
There will be approximately weekly programming assignments during the semester. Programming languages include Scheme, Prolog and Haskell.

See the homework link on the menu-bar.

Times
Times can be found on David Casperson’s Schedule also linked on the right.
Handouts
Handout Dates
2017-09-09 Course Syllabus
2017-09-15 Casperson’s Schedule
References
There is no required text.
Blackboard
Approximate Course Content
  • An introduction to functional programming. Static and dynamic typing. Strict and non-strict evaluation. Pure versus impure functional programming.
  • Some common functional programning languages.
  • Functions and partial functions.
  • Cartesian products. Disjoint unions. Currying.
Haskell.
  • Builtin types and literals. Tuples. Lists.
  • Declarations. Function declarations and function values.
  • Datatypes.
  • Exploiting laziness. Downsides to laziness.
  • Recursion, tail recursion, and accumulator arguments.
  • Monadic programming.
Scheme
  • Space and time complexity for functional programs and data structures.
Prolog.
  • An introduction to logic programming.
  • Facts. Rules. Goals. Variables. Conjunctions. Horn Clauses.
  • The Unification algorithm.
  • Accumulator arguments.
  • Difference lists.
  • Cuts. Negation.
  • Arithmetic.
  • Debugging.
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Notes
  1. I reserve the right to change the weight of any portion of this marking scheme. If changes are made, your grade will be calculated using the original weighting and the new weighting, and you will be given the higher of the two.
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