Assistants

For exercises, lab supervision and grading:

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Lecture schedule

• Mondays, 13:15–15:00, EF
• Thursdays, 10:00–11:45, EF

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Course Representatives

• TBA

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Discussion Group

We use Canvas Discussions.

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Reading material

Course book

There is an online version of it. Some related papers to read and other material will be provided with the lectures.

Extra reading material

These books are all good but presented in order of decreasing relevance for the AFP course.

Aim and context

Learning outcomes:

• DSL: design embedded domain specific languages

  • DSL.Concepts: (abstract) syntax, semantics, ...
  • DSL.Implement: implement EDSLs in Haskell (as combinator libraries)

• Types: read, understand and extend Haskell programs which use advanced type system features

  • Types.Class: type classes, newtypes, deriving, ...
  • Types.GADT: (generalised) algebraic datatypes & type families
  • Types.HOT: functors, monads and monad transformers

• Spec: use specification based development techniques

  • Spec.Test: formulate and test properties about the program
  • Spec.Prove: reason about correctness of functional programs
  • Spec.Trans: transform programs on the basis of reasoning

Context

The AFP course requires a BSc in Computer Science or equivalent, mathematical maturity, a basic course on Functional Programming (like our version) and a course on Programming Languages (like Programming Language Technology or Programming Paradigms). Other recommended courses are Logic in CS, Algorithms and Finite automata theory and formal languages.

Grading

Assignments

Laborations are graded with 3,4, and 5. Once you finish all the labs, you will get the following temporary grade:

tmp = (3*grade lab 1  + 5*grade lab 2 + 4*grade lab 3)/12

Above, the 3,5, and 4 coefficients are the weights of the labs based on their difficulty.

To fix some round errors, the final score of the lab is:

grade_labs = (tmp - 3) * 1,4999 + 2.5

Exam

The exam is graded as 3,4, and 5.

Final grade

The final grade for the course is composed of 60% for the lab's score and 40% for the exam's score.

total_grade = 0.6 * grade_labs + 0.4 * grade_exam

Where the total_grade then gets rounded generously, meaning, 4.5 -> 5.

If you are a Chalmers student, then you get the score total_grade as the grade for the whole course.

GU students get G if total_grade is 3 or 4 and VG if it is 5.

Course Syllabus

For GU students

For Chalmers students

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