SUBJECT: Functional Programming
TIME: 40 hours (20 hours of lectures, 20 hours of practicals)

AIM: To give the student an appreciation of functional programming 
     in general, its theoretical background, and competence in
     the functional programming language ml.


LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of this subject, the student should:

(1) Be able to program in ml
(2) Be competent in list processing, recursive programming,
    using and defining higher order functions.
(3) Have a knowledge of the Lambda Calculus



CONTENT:

(1) Introduction to functional programming and ml

(2) Functions, Polymorphism, List Processings

(3) Currying, and higher order functions

(4) Recursion and iteration

(5) Types, Exceptions, Imperatives

(6) The Lambda Calculus