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Course Catalog 00/01


Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

SMD090 Functional Programming 6.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Quarter III

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Håkan Jonsson 1 fo ing


PREREQUISITES
General eligibility for university studies.

COURSE AIM
The aim of the course is to
- give competence in implementing algorithms and data types in a functional language.
- give an introduction to a modern operating system and to computer science fundamentals.

CONTENTS
Programming:
Expressions and declarations. Types and type constructors. Type deduction. Pattern matching. Recursion. Higher order functions. User defined types. Simple examples taken from the area of discrete mathematics, such as sets and propositional logic.

Introduction to UNIX and computer science fundamentals:
UNIX. The file system. Editing. Introduction to some areas in computer science, for instance computer architecture, programming languages, etc.

TEACHING


EXAMINATION

COURSE GRADE SCALE: U,3,4,5

ITEMS/CREDITS

Laboratory work 1.50ECTS
Written exam 4.50ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
S. Thompson, Haskell - The Craft of Functional Programming. Addison Wesley Longman, 2nd edition.

REMARKS
The credits for this course cannot be combined with credits for SMD001 or SMD108.

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Valid for the academic year 00/01.

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