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Undergraduate Course: Informatics 1 - Functional Programming (INFR08013)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Informatics CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
Summary*Please note that this course has been replaced by a 20-credit course 'Informatics 1 - Introduction to Computation' (INFR08025) from 2018/19*.

An introduction to the concepts of programming, using a functional programming language. Students learn to solve small-scale problems succinctly and at an abstract level without being bogged down in details.
Course description An introduction to the concepts of programming using a functional programming language.

Relevant QAA Computing Curriculum Sections: to be confirmed
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites Students MUST also take: Informatics 1 - Computation and Logic (INFR08012)
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements SCE H-grade Mathematics or equivalent is desirable.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Solve simple programming tasks and define appropriate data types
  2. Perform case analysis, use recursion (for example, evaluate a parse tree for an arithmetic expression to yield a value)
  3. Read and write programs that use basic list processing functions, list comprehensions and higher-order functions
  4. Choose appropriate decompositions of given problems and compose corresponding functional programs from suitable function definitions, including their types
  5. Document, test and debug programs
Reading List
Thinking Functionally with Haskell, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Richard Bird
The Craft of Functional Programming, 3rd edition, Simon Thompson, Haskell, Addison Wesley, 2011
Programming in Haskell, Graham Hutton
The Haskell School of Expression, Paul Hudak
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! Miran Lipovica. No Starch
Press, 2011.
Additional Information
Course URL http://course.inf.ed.ac.uk/inf1-fp
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Don Sannella
Tel: (0131 6)50 5184
Email: D.T.Sannella@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Rob Armitage
Tel: (0131 6)50 5194
Email: Rob.Armitage@ed.ac.uk
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