Course Syllabus

The table below gives the planned syllabus for the course. This syllabus will be changed as needed. When it becomes necessary to revise the schedule, this page will be updated to reflect the changes.

Material describing the course and its objectives and grading policies is available elsewhere.

Readings should be done before the "lecture" meeting on the given date. Optional readings are optional, and can be used for background or enrichment. References are given in the bibliography below.

All course meetings are concerned with all of the course's essential learning outcomes.

Dates Topics Readings Optional Readings Homework Due
Jan. 8 Introduction Handouts, Grading Policy    
Jan. 10 HW1 Overview. Group Formation and Discussions     groups for HW1
Jan. 15 Picking Languages     HW1
Jan. 17 Picking Languages      
Jan. 22 Introduction to Haskell   Tutorials on Haskell.org  
Jan. 24 Types and Lists, Recursion   Tutorials on Haskell.org  
Jan. 29 Recursion [Leavens13] Tutorials on Haskell.org  
Jan. 31 Recursion [Leavens13] Tutorials on Haskell.org HW3p1
Feb. 5 Recursion [Leavens13] Tutorials on Haskell.org HW3,p2-3
Feb. 7 Recursion [Leavens13] Tutorials on Haskell.org HW3,p4
Feb. 12 Types and Type Checking   Tutorials on Haskell.org HW3,p5-11
Feb. 14 Types and Type Checking   Tutorials on Haskell.org HW3,p12-14
Feb. 19 Higher-order functions   Tutorials on Haskell.org HW4,p1
Feb. 21 Higher-order functions   Tutorials on Haskell.org HW4,p2-3
Feb. 26 Modules, Naming     HW4,p4
Feb. 28 Exam 1 [Leavens13] Tutorials on Haskell.org  
Mar. 5 No class, Spring Break      
Mar. 7 No class, Spring Break      
Mar. 12 Modules, Naming, Monads   [Wadler95], [Winstanley99] HW4,p5-6
Mar. 14 Monads   [Wadler95], [Winstanley99] HW4,p7
Mar. 19 Declarative Parallelism [Marlow12]   HW4,p8-9
Mar. 21 Summary of Concepts in the Declarative Models      
Mar. 26 Erlang, installation and comparison to Haskell      
Mar. 28 Exam 2   Tutorials on Haskell.org and [Wadler95], [Winstanley99]  
Apr. 2 Erlang, sequential programming      
Apr. 4 Erlang, actor model     HW5,p1-2
Apr. 9 Erlang, actor model     HW5,p3
Apr. 11 Erlang, actor model     HW2, HW5,p4
Apr. 16 Erlang, generalizing servers     HW6,p1-3
Apr. 18 Summary and Review of Erlang (and the course)     HW6,p4-6
Apr. 25, 1:00pm-3:50pm Exam 3      

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Bibliography

[Leavens13]
Gary T. Leavens. Following the Grammar with Haskell, University of Central Florida, Dept. of EECS, CS-TR-13-01, January 2013. http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~leavens/COP4020/docs/follow-grammar-haskell.pdf
[Marlow12]
Simon Marlow Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell, Version 1.2, May, 2012. http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/par-tutorial.pdf
[Wadler95]
Philip Wadler. Monads for functional programming. In J. Jeuring and E. Meijer (editors), Advanced Functional Programming, Proceedings of the Baastad Spring School, May 1995, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 925. Springer Verlag, Berlin. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/baastad.pdf
[Winstanley99]
Noel Winstanley What the hell are Monads? http://www-users.mat.uni.torun.pl/~fly/materialy/fp/haskell-doc/Monads.html

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Course Content and Policies

The course's content and grading polices are described on separate web pages. See the links on the top left of this page.

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Last modified Thursday, April 18, 2013.

This web page is for the Spring 2013 offering of COP 4020 at the University of Central Florida. The details of this course are subject to change as experience dictates. You will be informed of any changes. Please direct any comments or questions to Gary T. Leavens at leavens@eecs.ucf.edu. Some of the policies and web pages for this course are quoted or adapted from other courses I have taught, in partciular, Com S 342.