F2010 NUIM/CS430 Haskell Segment

Instructor

• Barak A. Pearlmutter
  (office hours: catch me at the Hamilton Institute, in south wing of Rye Hall, on Mon/Tue/Thurs afternoons, except while I'm teaching. Or anytime. Or call.)

Course Materials

Transcripts and files created in lectures.

Good texts available online for free:

• Learn you a Haskell for Great Good
• Real World Haskell
• Haskell Cheat Sheet

• Install GHC and play with it. Run ghci. Play with it. Write some little functions. Learn the basic syntax. Play with lists. (Suggestion: Emacs is a great editor, especially for programmers, and has a good Haskell mode.)
• Explain everything happening in this program: remove-extra-blank-lines.hs. Refactor the program to separate out the processing of the data from the I/O. Write a program (similar if you wish) to "disemvowel" its input, meaning remove all vowels. (This is used by some blog moderators as a way of indicating disapproval of a comment without removing it.) Write your own definitions for some of the list-processing functions in the standard prelude---your choice which.