Informatics 1 - Functional Programming

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The course Informatics 1 - Functional Programming is the first programming course taught to students at the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh.

Instructor

The course lecturer is professor Philip Wadler.

Setup

The course consists of 20 lectures and 10 tutorials spread over the length of the first semester of the year (September–December). Each tutorial has its own set of exercises, and examination is by two programming tests.

Students' background

The course is aimed primarily at students with no prior programming experience.

Materials

Textbook

The course textbook is Simon Thompson: Haskell, the Craft of Functional Programming.

Editor

The text editor used in the course is Emacs in Haskell mode.

Packages

Most exercises require students to verify their code using QuickCheck, where writing appropriate test properties is part of the challenge. In addition, some tutorial exercises use a modified version of the School of Expression graphics library, which relies on the following packages:

OpenGL
GLFW

Note: to run GLFW under Mac OS X you have to use EnableGUI (easy instructions are on the SOE site).