Thinking Functionally with Haskell

by Richard Bird

Overview

Richard Bird is famed for the clarity and rigour of his writing. His new textbook, which introduces functional programming to students, emphasises fundamental techniques for reasoning mathematically about functional programs. By studying the underlying equational laws, the book enables students to apply calculational reasoning to their programs, both to understand their properties and to make them more efficient. The book has been designed to fit a first- or second-year undergraduate course and is a thorough overhaul and replacement of his earlier textbooks. It features case studies in Sudoku and pretty-printing, and over 100 carefully selected exercises with solutions. This engaging text will be welcomed by students and teachers alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107452640
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/09/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	6.85(w) x 9.65(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Richard Bird is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Oxford University Computing Laboratory and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He has authored many books, including Algebra of Programming (1996) and Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. What is functional programming?; 2. Expressions, types and values; 3. Numbers; 4. Lists; 5. A simple Sudoku solver; 6. Proofs; 7. Efficiency; 8. Pretty-printing; 9. Infinite lists; 10. Imperative functional programming; 11. Parsing; 12. A simple equational calculator; Index.