Special Topics in Software Engineering:

Functional Programming

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Zsok

The main motivation is to provide the attendees with overview of functional programming paradigm. Functional programming offers excellent programming facilities for the newest trends in computer science. The high level abstraction of FP enables the development of applications for specific purposes. The presentations of such highly studied topics is beneficial for students less involved yet with this programming paradigm. Alternating lecture presentations (total 10 units of 45 min.) with small practical project exercises on which the students work independently (accounting for 5 units) are planned for knowledge acquiring. As a programming language we will use the functional language Clean.

Lecturer

Dr. Viktoria Zsok, Eötvös Lorand University Budapest
zsv@inf.elte.hu

Dates

Date	Time	Room
Wed 18.10.2023	15:30-18:45	HS 3
Thu 19.10.2023	15:30-18:00	P 004
Fri 20.10.2023	12:45-15:15	S3 055

Content

Defining functions (guards, patterns, compositions)

Recursive functions, currying

Data structures (lists, tuples) and specific types

List comprehensions. Generators

Higher order functions, related algorithms

Records, arrays, trees, classes

Abstract Data Types (ADT) and their usages

Project

Students will have to do a project that will also be used for grading this course. Details on the project assignment will be published here soon.

Additional consultations are planned along with discussions on research topics in FP nowadays, possible thesis topics, international mobility possibilities to ELTE, and joint projects possibilities (beside SusTrainable Project developments).

Slides and downloads

Slides and other course material can be downloaded from https://zsv.web.elte.hu/swlcl/.
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