Course Topic Outline

• Principles of Functional Languages
• Computer Science 2322
• Fall Semester 2010

Topics

• The topics to be covered in this course include, but are possibly not limited to, the following list. We will be utilizing three functional languages this semester: Scheme, ML, and Haskell. Selected topics may be discussed in any of the languages. For additional details, contact Dr. Eggen.
  • Data and Operators
  • Constructing and Managing Lists
  • Recursion
  • Procedures
  • Conditional Expressions
  • Data Abstraction
  • Locally Defined Procedures
  • Flat Recursion
  • Deep Recursion
  • Numerical Recursion
  • procedures as arguments
  • procedures as values
  • Abstracting procedures
  • sets and relations
  • using vectors
  • matrices
  • data structures: sorting and searching
  • mutation
  • object oriented programming
  • Data structures: stacks, queues, lists
  • Advanced Topics