Funding is available for this postgraduate project, supervised by Simon Thompson and Sally Fincher, in collaboration with Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University.
To apply visit http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/pg/ How do students learn Haskell? As users and teachers of Haskell, we have some sense of how people, both experienced programmers and novices, learn to program in Haskell. This sense is based on experience - as learners ourselves, perhaps, or through teaching. We propose an alternative approach, based on the wealth of data collected through the instrumented version of the Helium system for Haskell [1]. This collects information of the programs compiled, the errors they generate, and how learners use the system in fixing those errors, and so we can see precisely the way that learners use these tools while they are learning. This is a joint project of the Functional Programming and Computing Education groups at the University of Kent, and the Helium group at Utrecht. The CompEd group has experience of working on this sort of project [2], and the FP group has wide experience of teaching functional languages, particularly Haskell [3]. [1] Helium http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/Helium [2] ICER 2006 http://www.jadud.com/people/mcj/files/2006-icer-jadud.pdf [3] Craft http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/craft2e/ _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
