CMSC498Z - Advanced Functional Programming

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Course Information
The goal of this class is to expose students to advanced programming language ideas, including theory of programming languages, type systems, high-level programming abstractions, and program analyses. We will develop these ideas in three parts.

1. First, we start with a brief introduction to lambda calculus a compact but highly expressive programming language. Due to its simplicity lambda-calculus has been used to encode prototype type systems and program analysis.

2. Second, we spend most of the class studying Haskell, a general purpose, functional programming language. Haskell directly implements the ideas of lambda-calculus and provides a high-level programing language that uses various novel programming techniques, like strong-typing, absence of side-effect, laziness, and monadic programming.

3. Third, we present basic concepts of formal verification via Liquid Haskell, a refinement type checker for Haskell programs that extends Haskell's types with logical predicates to allow for expressive user specifications.

Instructor Section Day & Time Location
Niki Vazou 0101 TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am CSI 2120

Course Prerequisite(s)
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in CMSC351; and permission of CMNS-Computer Science department. Or must be in the (Computer Science (Doctoral), Computer Science (Master's)) program.

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