Haskell The Craft of Functional Programming

by Thompson, Simon

• ISBN13: 9780201882957
• ISBN10: 0201882957
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-16
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Summary

One of the leading textbooks on Haskell programming, this third edition is thoroughly revised throughout and includes new material on testing and domain-specific languages and a variety of new examples and case studies, including simple games. Emphasises software engineering principles. Encourages a disciplined approach to building reusable libraries of software components. Case studies are used throughout the book to introduce new ideas, illustrate important concepts, and demonstrate how existing techniques work together. Case studies include: An interactive calculator programme. A coding and decoding system. A small queue simulation package. Companion website contains supporting material (such as visualisation tools and a substantial number of web links) to aid further study. Appendices contain information on Hugs errors.

Author Biography

Simon Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Kent. His research and teaching interests include functional programming and logical aspects of computer science.

Table of Contents

Basic Functional Programming

Introducing functional programming

Getting started with Haskell and Hugs

Basic types and definitions

Designing and writing programs

Data types: tuples and lists

Programming with lists

Reasoning about programs

Abstraction

Generalization: functions as arguments

Functions as values

Classes in Haskell

Checking types

Larger-Scale Programming

Algebraic types

Case study: Huffman codes

Abstract data types

Lazy programming

Input/output and interaction

Programming with monads

Program behaviour

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

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