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A thoroughly updated edition of the market leading introductory programme for the Haskell language.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1 Introducing functional programming
• 2 Getting started with Haskell and GHCi
• 3 Basic types and definitions
• 4 Designing and writing programs
• 5 Data types, tuples and lists
• 6 Programming with lists
• 7 Defining functions over lists
• 8 Playing the game: I/O in Haskell
• 9 Reasoning about programs
• 10 Generalization: patterns of computation
• 11 Higher-order functions
• 12 Developing higher-order programs
• 13 Overloading, type classes and type checking
• 14 Algebraic types
• 15 Case study: Huffman codes
• 16 Abstract data types
• 17 Lazy programming
• 18 Programming with monads
• 19 Domain-Specific Languages
• 20 Time and space behaviour
• 21 Conclusion
• Appendices
• A Functional, imperative and 00 programming
• B Glossary
• C Haskell operators
• D Haskell practicalities
• E GHCi errors
• F Project ideas
• Bibliography

About the Author

Simon Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Kent. His research and teaching interests include functional programming and logical aspects of computer science.