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Thinking Functionally with Haskell
Richard Bird
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Richard Bird is famed for the clarity and rigour of his writing. His new textbook, which introduces functional programming to students, emphasises fundamental techniques for reasoning mathematically about functional programs. By studying the underlying equational laws, the book enables students to apply calculational reasoning to their programs, both to understand their properties and to make them more efficient. The book has been designed to fit a first- or second-year undergraduate course and is a thorough overhaul and replacement of his earlier textbooks. It features case studies in Sudoku and pretty-printing, and over 100 carefully selected exercises with solutions. This engaging ... Read more
Richard Bird is famed for the clarity and rigour of his writing. His new textbook, which introduces functional programming to students, emphasises fundamental techniques for reasoning mathematically about functional programs. By studying the underlying equational laws, the book enables students to apply calculational reasoning to their programs, both to understand their properties and to make them more efficient. The book has been designed to fit a first- or second-year undergraduate course and is a thorough overhaul and replacement of his earlier textbooks. It features case studies in Sudoku and pretty-printing, and over 100 carefully selected exercises with solutions. This engaging ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
612g
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107452640
SKU
V9781107452640
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About Richard Bird
Richard Bird is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Oxford University Computing Laboratory and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He has authored many books, including Algebra of Programming (1996) and Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
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