DM22, Spring 2005 - Weekly Note 1

Welcome to the course DM22 Programming Languages, spring 2005.

Lecture February 7 (expected contents)

Introduction to course. Major programming language categories. Brief programming language history.

Introduction to Haskell: Functions, basic types, evaluation. The Hugs interpreter.

Reading

Chapters 1 to 4 in Thompson, except pages 50-51.

Remarks

The textbook is geared towards students without programming experience in any language. Hence, in parts of the book, basic general programming issues are interleaved with issues regarding functional programming. You should of course read the former type of issues very lightly and concentrate on the latter type.

Exercises February 10/11

Exercises 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.10, 3.11, 4.1, 4.2, 4,3, 4.8, 4.10 and 4.14 in Thompson.