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COMP 311 / COMP 544: Functional Programming (Fall 20222023)
Instructor | Robert "Corky" Cartwright | ||
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Lectures | DCH 1064 | Lecture Times | 9:25am–10:40am TuTh |
Instructor Email | cork@rice.edu | Online Discussion | Piazza – Rice Comp 311 |
Brief Description
This class provides an introduction to functional programming. Functional programming is a style of programming in which computations are solely expressed in terms of applications of functions to arguments (which themselves can be functions). This style of programming has a long history in computer science, beginning with the formulation of the Lambda Calculus as a foundation for mathematics. It has become increasingly popular in recent years because it offers important advantages in designing, maintaining, and reasoning about programs in modern contexts such as web services, parallel (multicore) programming, and distributed computing. Course work consists of a series of programming assignments in the Racket, Java, and Haskell programming languages plus occasional written homework assignments on underlying theory.
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Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact me during the first two weeks of class regarding special needs. Students with disabilities should also contact Disabled Student Services in the Ley Student Center and the Rice Disability Support Services.
General Information
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Textbooks | There is no required textbook. We will follow the pedagogic approach of "How to Design Programs, First Edition" and extend it to other languages. The Second Edition of this book is default at the website www.htdp.org but this page contains a link to the first edition (at URL: https://htdp.org/2003-09-26/) at the bottom of the page. We will draw material from a variety of sources, including:
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Lecture Schedule (In Progress)
Tu | Aug 23 | Motivation and the Elements (Constants) of Racket | Skim HTDP First Edition, Part 1 (Ch 1-8), Part 2 (Ch 9-10) | Sep 01 | |
Th | Aug 25 | Conditionals, Function Definitions and Computation by Reduction | Sep 03 | ||
Tu | Sep 01 | Conditionals, Function Definitions and Computation by Reduction | Review Ch 8 HTDP Part 2 (Ch 9-10) | Sep 08 | |
3 | Th | Sep 03 | The Program Design Recipe for Racket focusing on using recursion to process lists and natural numbers | Preface, 9.4 HTDP Part 2 (Ch 11-13) | Sep 10 |
Tu | Sep 06 | Data Definitions, Data-driven Structural Recursion, | HTDP Part 3 | Sep 15 | |
5 | Th | Sep 08 | Mutually Recursive Definitions and Help Functions | HTDP Ch 15-17 | Sep 15 |
Tu | Sep 13 | Local Definitions and Lexical Scope | HTDP Parts 5-6 | Sep 22 | |
Th | Sep 15 | Lambda the Ultimate and Reduction Semantics | LawsOfEvaluation | Sep 22 | |
8 | Tu | Sep 20 | Functional Abstraction and Polymorphism | Sep 29 | |
9 | Th | Sep 22 | Functions as Values | Homework 4 | Sep 29 |
10 | Tu | Sep 27 | Generative (Non-structural) Recursion | ||
11 | Th | Sep 29 | Lazy Evaluation and Non-strict Constructors | Homework 5* | Oct 11 |
12 | Tu | Oct 04 | Techniques for Implementing Lazy Evaluation | ||
13 | Th | Oct 06 | A Glimpse at Imperative Racket and Memoization | Sample Exam | |
Tu | Oct 11 | Fall Recess | |||
13 | Th | Oct 13 | On to Java! | OO Design Notes | |
Tu | Oct 18 | Adapting the HTDP Design Recipe to Java Midterm (Through Lecture 13 and HW 5) 7-10pm | Homework 6 | Oct 25 | |
15 | Th | Oct 20 | Higher-order Functional Programming in Java | Oct 31 | |
16 | Tu | Oct 25 | Four Key Idioms for Encoding FP in Java | Homework 7 | Nov 1 |
17 | Th | Oct 27 | The Singleton and Visitor Patterns | ||
18 | Tu | Nov 01 | Java Generics and Their Role in FP in Java | Homework 8* | Nov 10 |
19 | Th | Nov 03 | Functional Rust I | ||
20 | Tu | Nov 08 | Functional Rust II | Nov 15 | |
21 | Th | Nov 10 | OO Rust Using Only Traits | Homework 9 | |
22 | Tu | Nov 15 | Rust ... | ||
23 | Th | Nov 17 | Rust ... | Homework 10 | Nov 29 |
24 | Tu | Nov 22 | Rust ... | Homework 11* | Dec 2 |
25 | Tu | Nov 29 | Rust Concurrency | ||
26 | Th | Dec 1 | Future of FP |
*Assignments marked with * are double assignments that count twice as much as regular assignments. **indicates the project in lieu of a final examination.
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