Functional Programming

Graham Hutton, University of Nottingham

Overview

This part of the programming paradigms course focuses on teaching the basic principles of functional programming using the Haskell language. You'll learn a range of techniques, and see how they can be used in practice to write different kinds of programs.

Lectures

Textbook:

     

Lectures:

• FP 1 - Course Overview
• FP 2 - Haskell Demo
• FP 3 - Introduction
• FP 4 - First Steps
• FP 5 - Types and Classes
• FP 6 - Defining Functions
• FP 7 - List Comprehensions
• FP 8 - Recursive Functions
• FP 9 - Exercises on Recursion
• FP 10 - Higher-Order Functions
• FP 11 - How To Think Recursively
• FP 12 - Declaring Types and Classes
• FP 13 - The Countdown Problem
• FP 14 - Interactive Programming
• FP 15 - Exercises on Interaction
• FP 16 - Lazy Evaluation
• FP 17 - Course Wrap Up

Additional material:

• Lecture slides
• Demo code
• Standard prelude

Resources

• Course moodle page (internal version of this page)
• Haskell home page (for all things Haskell)
• Haskell platform (the standard compiler and interpreter)
• Hoogle (for searching the libraries)