COMP2209 Programming III

Module Overview

This module aims to introduce students to recursion and to the principles of recursive, applicative and functional programming. In it, they will use various functional abstractions to control the complexity of programming, and will use abstraction mechanisms in programming. They will also study the principles of program evaluation and explore the evaluation mechanism via a meta-circular evaluator.

Aims and Objectives

Module Aims

This module aims to introduce students to recursion and to the principles of recursive, applicative and functional programming.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

The key mechanisms underpinning the functional programming model
The principles of evaluation of programming language

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Discuss and perform the decomposition of problems using procedural, data and metalinguistic abstractions
Understand the concept of functional programming and be able to write programs in this style.
Reason about evaluation mechanisms

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Program in a functional style
Evaluate programs step by step

Syllabus

Recursive Techniques recursion on numbers, lists, trees, graphs. Procedural Abstraction: - Procedures as arguments - Procedures as return values Objects: - Structures - Closures - Streams and delayed evaluation Metalinguistic Abstraction Environment model: - Evaluation - Interpreters - Functional programming techniques in object oriented languages

Learning and Teaching

Type	Hours
Revision	10
Preparation for scheduled sessions	18
Follow-up work	18
Wider reading or practice	27
Tutorial	12
Completion of assessment task	29
Lecture	36
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

Abelson H and Sussman GJ with Sussman J (1996). Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

Graham Hutton (2016). Programming in Haskell.

Assessment

Summative

Method	Percentage contribution
Coursework	40%
Examination	40%
Laboratory Exercises	20%

Repeat

Method	Percentage contribution
Coursework	40%
Examination	40%
Laboratory Exercises	20%

Referral

Method	Percentage contribution
Examination	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External

Linked modules

Pre-requisites: COMP1202 AND COMP1206