Organization

The course is organized as follows:

• 9 or so weeks (some with only one slot) in total (with a gap for exams and easter as usual in LP4)
• Three lecture or exercise slots per week, on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays (with some holidays, and not all slots used every week)

• Four compulsory lab assignments, including the first (LabA). The other lab assignments are optional (though we advise you to do them). The four compulsory 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

• Email: rjmh@chalmers.se and ms@chalmers.se
  (But please use Slack for general questions!)

Teaching assistants

Max Algehed

• Email: algehed@chalmers.se

• Planned Office Hours from week 5: Thu. 16.00-17.00

Markus Aronsson

• Email: mararon@chalmers.se

• Planned Office Hours from week 2: Tues. 10.00-11.00

When using office hours, it is a good idea to send a mail, preferably the day before, with a good explanation of your problem and of what you have tried to do to solve it. It may turn out that an email discussion is sufficient to solve your problem. Please do not expect instant turnaround, however. Our PhD students have a lot to do, and need to avoid fragmentation.

Course representatives

The following students have volunteered to be course representatives:

Fredrik Johansson MPSOF Email: frejohi@student.chalmers.se

Tobias Rastemo MPALG Email: tobias.rastemo@gmail.com

Jacob Torrång N1COS GU Email: kopatheonlyone@hotmail.com

Gagandeep Bhatia MPCAS GU Email: gagandeepbhatia.in@gmail.com

Thuy-dung, Nguyen (Dana) PhD student Halmsad U. Email: Thuy-dung.nguyen@hh.se

Talk to them if you have problems that you think we are causing and need to give us feedback. Constructive suggestions for change will be taken seriously.

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). The book is free to read online through his link on archive.org.

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.)

Welcome!