The book is therefore suitable for teaching a course in programming to first-year undergraduates, but it can also be used as an introduction to functional programming for students who are already …

Functional Programming Paradigm ‣ A style of building the structure and elements of computer programs that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions.

This book aims to provide a gentle introduction to functional programming. It is based on the premises that functional programming provides pedagogic insights into many aspects of computing and offers …

We can write elegant functional programs to solve interesting problems in very natural ways, and we can reason about functional programs by thinking in terms of mathematical functions.

Functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions. In contrast to procedural / imperative programming, functional programming …

Functional programming enables the programmer to describe an algorithm on a high-level, in terms of the problem domain, without having to deal with machine-related details. A program is constructed …

We cover the practicalities of basic functional programming in ML, and discuss polymorphism and most general types. We then move on to more advanced topics including exceptions and ML’s imperative …