Haskell-1

Functional Programming with Haskell

Course Program

This is a draft program. It can change.

Introduction to Functional Programming & the Haskell language. Basic concepts & syntax. Pure functions and immutability.
Starting out with functions, type signatures & solving problems with recursion. Difference between types and typeclasses.
(x:xs) - Lists & Problems with lists. Pattern matching.
Higher order functions - the complete package. maps, filters and folds.
Currying, Partial function applications & function composition. (.) and ($).
Haskell's type inference & lazy evaluation - examples. Strictness & Non-Strictness
Making our own types & typeclasses.
Input / Output & making some console tools with Haskell.
Introduction to Haskell's real world tools - Cabal. How to install 3rd party libraries & make projects.
Consuming HTTP & parsing / crawling websites with wreq and tagsoup
Making simple HTTP servers with Scotty or Yesod
Looking things from the abtract point of view - starting with the typeclasses for Functors and Applicative Functors.
Raising up the abstraction level - Associative binary functions, identities and monoids.
return does not return what you think it returns! Hello Monadic World.
Looking back to the libraries we have used with the newly aquired knowledge. How are they implemented? Can we do it ourselves?