Organization

The course is organized as follows:

• 8 weeks in total (with a gap for exams and easter after the first week)
• Three lectures per week, on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays (apart from holidays and other dates not containing lectures)
• Five lab assignments. All lab assignments need to be completed in order to complete the course; these are done in pairs.
• One written exam at the end of the course; this is done individually
• Your final grade will be determined by your grade on the written exam only

Teachers

John Hughes and Mary Sheeran

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  (But please use the forum for general questions!)

Teaching assistants

Nikita Frolov

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• Planned Office Hours: Wed. 13.15-14.15 and Fri. 13.15-14.15

Markus Aronsson

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• Planned Office Hours: Mon. 11.00-12.00 and Tues. 10.00-11.00

Student representatives

we have the following volunteer student reps. Please talk to any of them if you have feedback about the course and how it could be improved.

• Gregor

• Jakob

• Maria

• David

• Björn

• Philemon

Literature

This course does not have a set book. Instead, you will be expected to read a number of research papers. Links to those papers will be made available through the lectures page. However, note that Simon Marlow’s book on Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell covers a good chunk of the course (and lots of other interesting stuff). Simon will kindly give a guest lecture about his work (using Haskell to tame parallelism at Facebook) later in the course.

The lectures page gives an overview of the lectures and the recommended reading.

There are a number of resources available at the links page. This will be grown during the course. (The current version was borrowed from the Intro to FP course.)

The course in 2015

A link to last year’s course was requested, to give access to last year’s labs.

Parallel Functional Programming course at Chalmers 2015

Last year, there were four labs, and of those the Erlang labs will remain largely or completely unchanged. The other two labs have been replaced by three smaller labs as part of our response to feedback from student representatives.

Welcome!