Valid for: 2012/13
Decided by: Education Board 1
Date of Decision: 2012-03-19
Elective for: D4, D4-pv, F4, F4-pv, Pi4, Pi4-pv
Language of instruction: The course might be given in English
The course gives an insight into how the functional programming often offers a possibility to write shorter and easier-to-understand programs than using the traditional imperative or object-oriented approaches.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
The philosophy of functional languages. The programming languageĀ Haskell. Language constructs and idioms. Higher-order functions. Lazy evaluation and infinite data structures. Monads and monadic computations. Polymorphic type systems and type classes. Type analysis and type inference.
Grading scale: TH
Assessment: Written examination. To qualify for the exam students must have completed the assignments. The final grade of the course is based on the result of the written examination.
Required prior knowledge: FMAA01, FMA420 and FMA430.
The number of participants is limited to: No
The course overlaps following course/s: EDA120
Course coordinator: Docent Jacek Malec, Jacek.Malec@cs.lth.se
Course homepage: http://cs.lth.se/edan40