CPSC 499 — Advanced Functional Programmming — Winter 2019

Topics

from (not necessarily in the order listed)
exploring strictness, advanced pattern-matching syntax, purely functional data structures, standard type classes (box, Monoid, Foldable, Traversable, Functor, Applicative, monads, and monadic transformers), polymorphic recursion, fixed-point operators at both the value and type level,….

Attendance:

Attendance in this course is the student's responsibility and is not monitored by the instructor. Students are entirely responsible for being aware of material discussed in lecture, even if they are unavoidably prevented from attending.

Marking Scheme Changes:

I reserve the right to change weightings given in the marking scheme on the course outline. Students are guaranteed that their letter grade will not decrease as the result of such a change.

General

Discussion of assignment topic is encouraged but all assignments must be done independently.
Discussion participation is mandatory.

References

Definitive definitions

Language and library definitions can be found at

The Haskell 2010 Language Report.: (or as a .pdf, or it can be downloaded as a git repository.)
The entire Haskell Hierarchy Library: including source code is online.

There is a lot of good reference material directly at https://www.haskell.org/ documentation link. Of particular interest:

The Haskell 2010 Language Report.

(or as a .pdf, or it can be downloaded as a git repository.)

Books

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!: This is a funky text with lots of good information presented in a fun way.
Real World Haskell: A good book for practical programming. If you want to be able to do in Haskell what you can do in Java, this is a good book to look at.

Tutorials

Elsewhere

Not directly mentioned on the Haskell.org web-site is

Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki.

This book is an excellent guide to how amortized complexity calculations can be handled in a lazy context, and provides a wealth of practical, CPSC 281 like, material.

Important Information

Important information will be posted here from time to time.

2019-01-06: Web-page updated.
2018-12-30: Web-page created.

Grading Scheme

Report	20%
Participation	50%
Homework	30%

Policies

Course policies can be found here.

Handouts

2019-01-04

Printed Outline

Links

Course Dates

Homework	Occasional. Assigned in meetings
Report	see here.
Winter Break	2019-02-19 to 2019-02-19.
Course Evaluation	2019-03-29 Friday
Last Class	2019-04-05 Friday
Final	There is no final.
Good Friday	2019-04-19
Easter Monday	2019-04-22