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CS 6510  Practical Functional Programming
Spring 2012MW 11:50-1:10   WEB 1450
Instructor: Matthew FlattOffice Hours: by appointment, MEB 3458

This course is about functional programming, emphasizing functional-programming skills and techniques that apply to all programming languages. Roughly one-third of the course meetings provide a conventional lecture; in the remaining meetings, we study example programs written and presented by students who are taking the course.

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Day-by-Day

Jan 9:Course setup, functional computation; slides
Jan 11:How to design programs; slides
Jan 16:Holiday
Jan 18:Abstraction; slides; HW1
Jan 23:Graph-layout programs; HW1a
Jan 25:No meeting
Jan 30:Graph-layout programs
Feb 1:Dominion; protocol v1 [pdf]
Feb 6:Dominion initial players
Feb 8:Dominion tests/examples
Feb 13:Recursion, loops, stacks, tail calls, and space safety; slides
 dominion1-tests; protocol v2 [pdf]; example v1 implementation
Feb 15:Languages and macros in Racket; slides; example; article
 example v2 implementation
Feb 22:Dominion players
Feb 27:Continuation-passing style; slides; success-fail-k
 protocol v3 [pdf]; example v3 implementation
Feb 29:Closure compilation; clos-comp; Feeley87
Mar 5:Dominion v3 players
 IMAP project
Mar 7:Monads
Mar 12:Spring break
Mar 14:Spring break
Mar 19:Compiling an interpreter; slides; comp-interp
Mar 21:IMAP mail readers
Mar 26:Purely functional data structures; Okasaki96; avl; queue
Mar 28:No meeting
Apr 2:IMAP mail readers
Apr 4:Project plans
Apr 9:Concurrent ML; notes/code; refs
Apr 11:No meeting
Apr 16:Lambda Calculus
Apr 18:Project presentations
Apr 23:Project presentations
Apr 23: 


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Last update: Sunday, April 15th, 2012
mflatt@cs.utah.edu