Questions tagged [functional-programming]
For questions relating to teaching the functional programming paradigm. A few examples of languages which support this paradigm are Haskell, Scheme, Lisp, Racket, OCaml, Clojure, ML, and Erlang.
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Should an undergraduate course on Programming Languages precede or succeed the course on Compiler Construction?
I am an undergraduate CS student half way through my degree. I have started taking an online(Youtube) course on Programming Languages. The course contents include the following topics:
First-class ...
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Which book should I choose to get into the Lisp World?
I am an undergraduate computer science student. I have completed two out four years of my degree. I have not had an interaction with any Lisp family of languages. I have strong background in C, Java, ...
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What sort of programming assignments do you give in an FP course?
I teach programming to a science/engineering students. Here is a typical sequence of assignments for a beginning programming class:
Arithmetic and conditionals: does ...
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Do you know online courses with Haskell for Theory of Computation?
I taught Theory of Computation last Fall and I believe it would be more interesting for students to add some coding implementations. Are you aware of any online course or textbooks in which Haskell (...
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What is a real-world (production-code) example of a function having default arguments?
I want to teach students about default function arguments.
I have a bad habit of cooking-up contrived examples.
To prove that I am not a student cheating on their homework, I shall provide you with ...
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Logo course scaffolding
Good afternoon, colleagues!
We're planning a year-long intro course to computer science for middle schoolers and going to use Logo as a main language but also looking for alternatives available to 5-...
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Jackson based IDE for programming
Is there any Jackson based IDE for programming?
I mean, an IDE in which you can place the sentences in sequence from left to right.
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Problem book for Haskell course
I need a set of problems for beginner Haskell course represented as a problem book or workbook.
Can you help me find any to give them as a homework on weekly basis?
I was able to find only one book in ...
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How to introduce Kotlin in a Programming Languages course
I'm teaching an upper-division college Programming Languages course, in which students have learned some Scheme, Haskell, and Go. Students' strongest language is Java, which we use in most of our ...
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What are Macros in programming language am little bit confuse . why we use them for which perpose? [closed]
What are macros in programming language ? And we use these macros and for which perpose.I saw a YouTube video and also read from a link but am cofused about why we use them.
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Small to medium scale exercises about Haskell's higher abstractions
Short version: Where can I find highly varying, small or medium-sized exercises and examples on the use, identification and instance declaration of Haskell's abstractions such as applicatives, monads, ...
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Statistics on functional programming in CS1
This question got me thinking about cs1 and functional programming.
Do there exist anywhere statistics on what portion of schools teach cs1 using a functional paradigm? I know that some schools do, ...
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Why isn't Functional Programming Taught First?
We've recently gone through the process of selecting an intern from a local university to join our team for the summer. We are using F# and almost exclusively using functional programming techniques ...
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Functional Programming - using F sharp
I learnt a lot (like kept hearing about it) about functional programming after coming to this community. I had heard of it before but was unaware of its importance. Then, I started including ...
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Mini-Projects that can be covered in an 1 hour Haskell tutorial
I am supposed to be holding a tutorial session in an Undergraduate Haskell Course, which is also supposed to be a first course in programming for a few of the students. Ideally, the tutorial should be ...
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Does teaching an intro course with a functional language really help level the playing field?
On another question, Ben. I claimed:
By utilizing a functional language in your first course, you get to
have a classroom full of kids who have a much more similar footing.
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How to answer "functional programming is useless"?
I'm a TA for several Bachelor level functional programming courses at my university. In every edition we have problems with some students that have the idea that functional programming is useless, ...
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How to introduce Scala to a team of Java developers without being boring?
I work in a startup where each week, a member of the team does a short presentation (30-60 min) on a subject in front of the others. It is a very informal and relaxed session, but now it is my turn ...
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Learning fundamental differences between functional programming and Object Oriented Programming
I've been trying to learn the differences between Functional Programming and OOP, but I can't seem to find a comparison of the two.
A Google search did not yield any chart or table showing such a ...
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What 'procedural' habits to break when teaching 'functional' programming?
I have a class undergraduate students (2nd and 3rd year) who have had at least two terms of college/university level programming courses using a procedural programming language (typically C++), and ...
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How should the paradigm shift associated with functional programming be approached?
As a student primarily experienced with imperative and object-oriented languages, my first few hours learning Haskell at university were a bit of a struggle. There's a real shift involved in terms of ...
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Significant algorithm from CS for DrRacket that emphasize cons, car, and cdr
When my students move up to junior year, they make a series of transitions: from programming to theoretical computer science, and from imperative to functional programming. We use DrRacket, and one ...
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Scheme vs Haskell for introducing functional programming
So, I am not interested in which language is better, because that is a matter of opinion. What I care about is whether making a switch from Scheme to Haskell will directly help me accomplish my goals....
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