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Software 3: Functional Programming - COM00059H

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• Department: Computer Science
• Module co-ordinator: Dr. Rahul Ruttun
• Credit value: 20 credits
• Credit level: H
• Academic year of delivery: 2024-25

Module summary

Functional programming

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Module will run

Occurrence	Teaching period
A	Semester 1 2024-25

Module aims

SOF3 teaches the basics and advanced features of typed, lazy functional programming, illustrated with a variety of applications, including implementing Domain Specific Languages by both deep and shallow embedding. This module also covers a range of functional-programming techniques, type classes, and testing tools.

Module learning outcomes

S301	Develop, understand and analyse non-trivial small-scale programs in a functional language such as Haskell, including reasoning about equality of simple expressions.
S302	Use the principal features of a TLFN (higher order functions, polymorphism, laziness, data types, type classes) to solve small but non-trivial, well-specified problems.
S303	Construct suitable data types and functions to manipulate Domain Specific Languages in a TLFN.
S304	Use available supporting tools for program development, analysis, testing and debugging, such as QuickCheck and SmallCheck
S305	Discuss the issues affecting the sequential implementation of lazy functional languages, including determining when sequentiality is needed and its implementation through monads.
S306	Explain the differences between declarative and imperative descriptions of computation.

Assessment

Task	Length	% of module mark
Essay/coursework Software 3 Open Assessment	N/A	100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task	Length	% of module mark
Essay/coursework Software 3 Open Assessment	N/A	100

Module feedback

Feedback is provided verbally throughout the module via practical sessions/seminars, and after the summative assessment as per University guidelines.

Indicative reading

*** Graham Hutton, Programming in Haskell, CUP, 2007

* Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen & Donald Stewart, Real World Haskell, O'Reilly Media, 2008

+ Jeremy Gibbons & Oege de Moor, The Fun of Programming, Palgrave, 2003

+ Christopher Okasaki, Purely Functional Data Structures, CUP, 2008