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Haskell: Lecture notes and assignments

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Independent
Pricing

Free Online Course
Languages

English
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Intermediate

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This course introduces Haskell through lectures and weekly programming assignments. Topics include algebraic data types, recursion, polymorphism, type inference, lazy evaluation, IO, functors, applicative functors, and monads.

Syllabus

All homework assignments should emerge creatively from the Style guidelines. Homework is due each Monday by the start of class.

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Week 1 (14 January): Introduction to Haskell ( html, lhs )
- Homework 1: due Monday, 21 January.
Week 2 (21 January): Algebraic Data Types ( html, lhs )
- Homework 2: due Monday, 28 January. [ error.log, sample.log, Log.hs ]
Week 3 (28 January): Recursion patterns, polymorphism, and the Prelude ( html, lhs )
- Homework 3: due Monday, 4 February.
Week 4 (4 February): Higher-order programming and type inference ( html, lhs )
- Homework 4: due Monday, 11 February.
Week 5 (11 February): More polymorphism and type classes ( html, lhs )
- Homework 5: due Monday, 18 February. [ ExprT.hs, Parser.hs, StackVM.hs ]
Week 6 (18 February): Lazy evaluation ( html, lhs )
- Homework 6: due Monday, 25 February.
Week 7 (25 February): Folds and monoids ( html, lhs )
- Homework 7: due Monday, 11 March. [ Editor.hs, Buffer.hs, Sized.hs, StringBuffer.hs, StringBufEditor.hs, carol.txt ]
Week 8 (11 March): IO ( html, lhs )
- Homework 8: due Monday, 18 March. [ Employee.hs, company.txt ]
Week 9 (18 March): Functors ( html, lhs )
- Homework 9: due never (no HW this week).
Week 10 (25 March): Applicative functors (part 1) ( html, lhs )
- Homework 10: due Monday, 1 April. [ AParser.hs ]
Week 11 (1 April): Applicative functors (part 2) ( html, lhs )
- Homework 11: due Monday, 8 April. [ AParser.hs, SExpr.hs ]
Week 12 (8 April): Monads ( html, lhs )
- Homework 12: due Monday, 15 April. [ Risk.hs ]