Latest change Dec 17, 2022
The course contents is more or less defined by the lecture slides, which are found in the detailed schedule. There is also a course book:
Michael R. Hansen, Hans Rischel: Functional Programming Using F#, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN: 9781107684065. The book has a home page.
From 2022 the course book is not mandatory. It is however highly recommended since it complements the lecture slides nicely.
Here are directions for reading: what parts of the literature are of relevance for the written exam.
If you have an interest in functional programming, you may want to check out the language Haskell for which there are also a number of good and pedagogical textbooks: see here.
Functional programming for parallelism: MapReduce, and Erlang.
A Brief Survey of Functional Programming Languages: an attempt to give you some context.
The slides for the course are found from the detailed schedule.
A set of exercises.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for the course.
You can download F# for free, to your own computer here. This page contains instructions how to install F# on a number of platforms including Windows, Mac, and linux. Note that if you have Visual Studio (2012 or later), then you already have F# (although it might not be the latest version).
Non-Windows users also need Mono, which is an open implementation of the .NET CLR that allows .NET applications to be run also on non-Windows platforms. Most linux distributions carry Mono, unfortunately often quite old versions. Newer versions can be downloaded here. If you use Ubuntu 14.04 or later (or some Ubuntu derivative) then Mono and F# are included in the distribution, and can simply be installed directly from the software center (or by using a suitable packet manager).
The F# Language Specification.
The Wikipedia Entry on Functional Programming, and F#.
F# Guide (from Microsoft), with F# code formatting guidelines.
FsCheck download and documentation at GitHub.
F# Functional Koans, a way to learn F# through testing.
Erlang is a functional and process-parallel language, originally developed at Ericsson, which is extensively used in real applications.
Scala is a "better java" which integrates element of object-oriented and functional programming languages.
Clojure is a modern LISP dialect.