Typed functional programming languages allow for the rapid development of robust programmes. This course explores some of the more advanced language features of Haskell, a state-of-the-art functional programming language, together with some of its theoretical background.
The course aims to teach not only the more advanced Haskell features, such as GADTs or type families, but also the underlying theory. Besides the lectures, there are numerous supervised lab sessions to help you come to grips with the material covered in class.
We expect students to have a basic familiarity with Haskell already. You should be able to write recursive functions over algebraic data types, such as lists and trees. There is a great deal of online material freely available that covers this material. If you've already started learning Haskell and are looking to take your functional programming skills to the next level, this is the course for you.
The course covers a variety of intermediate topics, including type-level programming, monads and applicative functors, laziness, and testing.
Participants will learn a modern programming paradigm. The acquired knowledge will not only enable participants to contribute to programming projects using Haskell – it will also enable them to apply the concepts they have learned to other projects, making them better programmers in any language.
The course takes one week, with a few hours of lectures per day. We will offer supervised lab sessions to practice with the material taught in the lectures.
We will charge a registration fee of 950 euros (or 500 euros for students) to cover our expenses. If this is problematic for you for any reason at all, please email the organizers and we can try to offer you a discounted rate or a fee waiver.
Note that this fee includes coffee, lunch and dinner throughout the week.
The housing costs do not include a Utrecht Summer School sleeping bag. This is a separate product on the invoice. If you wish to bring your own bedding, please deselect or remove the sleeping bag from your order.
More information can be found on our website: http://www.afp.school
For this course you are required to upload the following documents when applying: