Content
The course provides an introduction to functional programming, covering both, practical examples using OCaml (a functional language) and theoretical background.
Lecture notes can be downloaded within the university network and are also available at Studia. Studia also sells the last year's edition, which you can use, the current one only has some small mistakes corrected. Please note the new location of Studia (Zeichensaal T21b, Untergeschoss).
Schedule
| week | date | topics | slides | sources | exercises | history |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 03.10. | historical overview, OCaml introduction, first steps | txt | |||
| 2 | 10.10. | lists, polymorphism, higher-order functions | txt | |||
| 3 | 17.10. | modules, strings | tgz | txt | ||
| 4 | 24.10. | user-defined types, trees | tgz | txt | ||
| 5 | 31.10. | introduction to lambda calculus | ||||
| 6 | 6.11. | lambda calculus, evaluation strategies | txt | |||
| 7 | 14.11. | induction, reasoning about functional programs | ||||
| 8 | 21.11. | efficiency, tail-recursion | ||||
| 9 | 28.11. | combinator parsing / functional parsers | tgz | txt | ||
| 10 | 5.12. | types, type checking, type inference | ||||
| 11 | 12.12. | implementing type inference | tgz | |||
| 12 | 9.01. | lazyness | tgz | txt | ||
| 13 | 16.01. | dependent types | ||||
| 14 | 23.01. | monads, efficiency | ||||
| - | 30.01. | 8:00-10:00 first exam HS-D | ||||
| - | 2.03. | 14:00-16:00 second exam HSB-9 | ||||
| - | 25.09. | 14:00-16:00 third exam HSB-9 |
The Lamda-Interpreter presented in the lectures 5 and 6 can be found here.
Literature
Amongst other sources the course incorporates material from the following books:- Larry C. Paulson, ML for the working programmer (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 9780521565431.
- Richard Bird, Introduction to functional programming using Haskell (2nd edition), Prentice Hall Europe, 1998, ISBN 0134843460.
- Anthony J. Field, Functional Programming, Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0201192497.
- Bruce J. MacLennan, Functional Programming: Practice and theory, Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0201137445.
- Chris Okasaki, Purely functional data structures, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0521663504.
- Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein, Introduction to algorithms, The MIT Press, 2009, ISBN 9780262533058.
- Fethi Rabhi and Guy Lapalme, Algorithms: A functional programming approach, Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0201596040.
- Simon Thompson, The craft of functional programming, Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0201403579.