Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What's going on in our courses?

2006-10-14 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
dons:
> monnier:
> > > Last Spring my Functional Programming class implemented a Genetic  
> > > Algorithm
> > > with Neural Networks that learned to play Nim. The students  had a really
> > > good time--they also learned lots about Functional  Programming
> > > with Haskell.
> > > Part of the final exam was a tournament.
> > 
> > > This Fall in AI we'll be  doing GA's again and Genetic Programming.
> > 
> > > Is there a list or forum that talks about teaching our students
> > > about  Haskell?

Also, 
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_education

-- Don
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What's going on in our courses?

2006-10-14 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
monnier:
> > Last Spring my Functional Programming class implemented a Genetic  Algorithm
> > with Neural Networks that learned to play Nim. The students  had a really
> > good time--they also learned lots about Functional  Programming
> > with Haskell.
> > Part of the final exam was a tournament.
> 
> > This Fall in AI we'll be  doing GA's again and Genetic Programming.
> 
> > Is there a list or forum that talks about teaching our students
> > about  Haskell?
> 
> Indeed, I'd be interested as well.
> I'm actually looking for a good textbook for a "concepts of programming
> language" course.  All the books I can find tend to emphasize OO or
> imperative programming too much for my taste.

You might want to look at :
http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs3161/docs/references.php

We use:
Bob Harper's book, "Programming Languages: Theory and Practice"
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/
and
"Types and Programming Languages", Benjamin Pierce

Cheers,
  Don
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