Functional Programming in Haskell

Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is intended for learners who already have experience of at least one programming language, such as Python or Java. You might be a computer science student, a software developer who wants to learn a new programming style, or somebody considering university study in computer science or information technology. You can use the hashtag #FLhaskell to talk about this course on social media.

• Evaluation via expression reduction
• Semantics of function abstraction and application
• Operations involving basic types including integers, characters and booleans
• Definition and traversal of recursive data types including lists and trees
• Techniques for structuring programs of non-trivial size
• Developing custom parsing tools with library support
• Automated testing with the QuickCheck tool
• Infinite data structures and lazy evaluation
• Type classes
• Principles of Lambda calculus
• Monads