MFC Seminar: The Joy of FP in Haskell

When:
April 27, 2017 @ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
2017-04-27T15:00:00-10:00
2017-04-27T16:15:00-10:00
Where:
Keller 401

Title: The Joy of Functional Programming in Haskell

Speaker: Jake Fennick

Time: 3pm Tuesday April 18, 2017

Location: Keller 401

Abstract:

The goal of this talk is to convey to you the experience of pure joy
and excitement when using Haskell, and to help you actually get
started programming in Haskell. After a basic introduction to the
language, we will cover

1. The development environment and getting set up
2. More advanced language features
3. Some mathematical patterns and functional programming idioms
4. Lots of fancy demos such as plotting/visualization, LaTeX,
algorithmic music generation, high performance computing, etc.
5. A little bit of theory

This will be a coding talk, so we will primarily be walking through
code and actually getting set up. The code (including installation
scripts) is at https://github.com/TypeFunc/uh-mfc I hope to cover a
lot of material, so I encourage you to check it out but it isn’t
strictly necessary.