The participants shall conceive in theory and practice advanced
concepts and principles of functional programming and their
applications, and be able to use and apply them competently and
adequately in known as well as in new application scenarios.

The course is concerned with advanced concepts and principles of
functional programming and their applications. The lecture part of the
course stretches from functional programming principles to quality
assurance, advanced languages concepts, and applications. Regularly
assigned exercises of the tutorial part of the course give a hands-on
experience of applying the concepts and principles to problems of
suitable kind, size and complexity to get to a profound understanding
of them in theory and practice.

Part I: Motivation

• Why Functional Programming Matters

Part II: Programming Principles

• Programming with Streams
• Programming with Higher-Order Functions
• Equational Reasoning

Part III: Quality Assurance

• Testing
• Verification

Part IV: Advanced Language Concepts

• Functional Arrays
• Abstract Data Types
• Monoids
• Functors
• Monads
• Arrows

Part V: Applications

• Parsing
• Logical Programming Functionally
• Pretty Printing
• Functional Reactive Programming

Part VI: Extensions and Prospectives

• Extensions for Parallelism and Real World Programming
• Conclusions and Prospectives

The preliminary course meeting and the first lecture take place on
Thursday, 1 March 2018, from 4.15 pm to 5.45 pm FH H/oumlrsaal 2,
Freihausgebäude, Trum B, gelber Bereich, 2nd floor (instead of
"Seminarraum Argentinierstr. EAEG06" as usual).

Note: Due to construction work, the Seminarraum Argentinierstr. EAEG06
might not be available in the summer term 2018.  Please, be thus aware
of changes in room and time on short notice.

ECTS Break Down:

The course is assigned 3.0 ECTS points. This corresponds to an average
workload of 75 hours. This average workload is divided among the
various parts of the course as follows:

• Attending the lectures, pre- and post-processing: 35 hours.
• Assignments: 30 hours.
• Preparation for the examination and oral examination: 10 hours.

Grading of assignments and an oral examination. The final grade is
composed of the grades of the regular assignments (50%) and the grade
of the final oral examination (50%). Further information on the
examination modalities are given on the homepage of the course.

Basic knowledge of the functional programming paradigm as
e.g. imparted in the course LVA 185.A03 "Funktionale Programmierung"
is mandatory.