FI:IB015 Intro to Func.Programming

IB015 Introduction to Functional Programming

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2004

Extent and Intensity

2/1. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

RNDr. Libor Škarvada (lecturer)
RNDr. Václav Brožek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Vojtěch Forejt, Ph.D., LL.B. (Hons) (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Jan Hubený (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Ondřej Krajíček (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tomáš Kratochvíla (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Václav Lorenc (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Eva Mráková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
RNDr. David Novák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. David Šafránek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: RNDr. Libor Škarvada

Timetable

Mon 18:00–19:50 D1, Mon 18:00–19:50 D3, Mon 18:00–19:50 D2

Timetable of Seminar Groups:

IB015/01: each even Tuesday 16:00–17:50 B130, D. Šafránek
IB015/02: each odd Tuesday 16:00–17:50 B130, D. Šafránek
IB015/03: each even Tuesday 18:00–19:50 B130, D. Šafránek
IB015/04: each odd Tuesday 18:00–19:50 B130, D. Šafránek
IB015/05: each even Wednesday 16:00–17:50 B311, V. Brožek
IB015/06: each odd Wednesday 16:00–17:50 B311, V. Brožek
IB015/07: each even Tuesday 14:00–15:50 B130, V. Lorenc
IB015/08: each odd Tuesday 14:00–15:50 B130, V. Lorenc
IB015/09: each even Friday 8:00–9:50 B130, O. Krajíček
IB015/10: each odd Friday 8:00–9:50 B130, O. Krajíček
IB015/11: each even Tuesday 12:00–13:50 B311, D. Novák
IB015/12: each odd Tuesday 12:00–13:50 B311, D. Novák
IB015/13: each even Thursday 14:00–15:50 B311, V. Forejt
IB015/14: each odd Thursday 14:00–15:50 B311, V. Forejt
IB015/15: each even Friday 10:00–11:50 B130, J. Hubený
IB015/16: each odd Friday 10:00–11:50 B130, J. Hubený
IB015/17: each even Wednesday 18:00–19:50 B130, T. Kratochvíla
IB015/18: each odd Wednesday 18:00–19:50 B130, T. Kratochvíla
IB015/19: each even Tuesday 12:00–13:50 B130, A. Horák

Prerequisites

! I015 Intro to Func.Programming
There are no special prerequisities apart from the basic math skills (on the secondary-school level), and certain aptitude for abstract reasoning.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-BI)
Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-FY)
Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GE)
Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GK)
Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-CH)
Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-MA)
Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-SO)
Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-TV)
Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)

Course objectives

The students get acquainted with functional programming paradigm. Haskell enforces purely functional programming style without side effects, which brings on programming habits, useful also in imperative languages. Apart from lectures the course consists of non-obligatory exercises, where the students can practise solving various problems.

Syllabus

Basic notions: term, value, evaluation step.
Lambda abstraction.
Higher-order functions, partial application, currying.
Simple types: ground types and type constructors, product types.
Polymorfic types, typing.
User defined type constructors, sum types, recursive types; definitions by patterns.
List constructors, list enumeration and list comprehension.
Evaluation order, strict vs. lazy reduction.
Infinite data structures.
Recursive functions, operations on lists and trees, time complexity.

Literature