CS653: Functional Programming (2017-18 IInd Semester)



This course aims to teach design and implementation of Functional Programming Languages. I will use Haskell as the programming language.


Code of Ethics

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Announcements

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Topics Covered and Slides

# Description (# of Lectures) Slides References
1. Introduction & Motivation (1) [slides] [Why FP Matters]
2. Motivation (1) [slides]
3. Introduction to Haskell (7) [slides]
4. + Functions and List Comprehension [slides]
5. + Data types, Pattern matching [slides] [Gentle Intro]
6. + Type Classes and Overloading [slides] [Paper-1][Paper-2]
7. + Numeric Class Hierarchy [slides]
8. + Monads [slides] [Paper-1] [Paper-2]
9. + IO, Modules [slides]
10. Lambda Calculus (2) [slides]
11. + Church Numerals, Y combinator [slides]
12. Type Checking [slides]
13. Type Checking, Unification [slides]
14. Type Inferencing [slides]
15. Enriched Lambda Calculus [slides]
16. Haskell to Enriched Lambda Calculus [slides]
17. Towards Compilation - Graph Reduction [slides]
18. Supercombinators, Lambda Lifting [slides]
19. G-Machine [slides]
20. G-Machine [slides]

Assignments

There will be short assignments to give you a chance to apply the lecture material. Assignments will have some programming tasks.


Course Project


Evaluation Scheme

Credit

Assignments 10%
Quizzes 10%
Mid semester exam 25%
End semester exam 40%
Course Project 15%

Motivation

Website

Haskell Tutorials and Resources

Books

Papers and Other Resources

Lambda Calculus

Type classes

Monads

Prof Amitabha Sanyal's Notes on

Papers about Y combinator.

Both the papers use Scheme syntax to explain Y.


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