CS 454 Home Page • Spring 2005
Some end-of-semester policy and logistics announcements
- Lab 8 (the tic-tac-toe game) is now due on Weds. the 20th;
since that's SSRD Day, we'll need to make arrangements to demo your
programs (I'll be available on parts of that day, and especially
on the following Friday; details to follow when the SSRD schedule
is released).
- Lab 9 (the HTML picture browser) is due on Weds. the 27th.
- Students should choose between doing a final project and taking the
final exam; you may delay your choice up until the day of the final
(Friday, May 6th), and we may do some project demos on that day,
depending on the mix of exam-takers and projects. You may choose
anything you want for your final project, but you should discuss it
with e in advance for approval. Most students would be expected to
choose from one of the advanced applications areas we are show-casing
in the final lecture days, including:
- HTML programming (standard Text.Html library);
- more advanced CGI programming (WASH library);
- simple graphics and animation (HGL and SOEGraphics libraries);
- advanced animation (Fran library);
- Haskell GUI programming (wxHaskell library);
- music programming (Haskore library);
You are encouraged to start looking into these libraries, using the hand-out sheet resources and those on the haskell.org website.
- As mentioned above, the final exam will be given on Friday, May 6th. Although lab is not officially scheduled for Weds., May 4th, I will be available on that day during the usual lab hours, as long as there are students in attendance (i.e., I reserve the right to leave after a while if no one is there or has made arrangements to be there).
Links for wxHaskell docs
Go here for information on wxHaskell used in lecture.
An on-line tutorial on monads (by Jeff Newbern)
Follow this link to the All About Monads tutorial.
The list of screenshots (etc.) of possible topics
Remember to bring your list of priorities to lab on Wednesday.
The code files from lecture
Here's a handy-dandy annotated index to all the code files used in lecture ... it's just not finished yet (9 March). But it will be done well before next week's exam, so use it to study from!
The labs
Note: all labs will now be due at the latest by midnight on the Thursday following the stated due date: no exceptions!- Lab 1 (due 2 Feb)
- Lab 2 (due 9 Feb)
- Lab 3 (due 16 Feb)
- Lab 4 (due 25 Feb)
- Lab 5 (
due 2 Mar)(Now due 9 March!) - Lab 6 (due 16 March!)
- Lab 7 (due 6 April)
- Lab 8 (due 20! April)
- Lab 9 (due 27! April)
Samples files and hand-outs from lecture
- Preliminary installation instructions
- The original bananas paper (fold/unfold)
- A later banana paper (more Haskell-y notation)
Other useful resources
Some fun quotations, etc.
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pizza ad
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Academic FP versus Industrial O-O
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And, from Philip Greenspun's blog:
Look how much fun it is to program SQL. Three lines of code and you get an interesting answer (and those three lines would have been much cleaner and simpler if we hadn't been forced to use the CLOB datatype, which has its own strange accessor functions). Compare to Java and C where typing until your fingers fall off usually doesn't result in much of anything. SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
(emphasis added).
