Poetry of Programming - Puzzle Based Introduction to Functional Programming

Overview

This is a Clojure programming course designed for non-programmers, in particular for Liberal Arts students with some college/high school algebra background. The course discusses the functional core of the language. It is offered at Akita International University in Japan (MAT245 2017-2020, MAT340 2021-), also at UCU Open University as AS-009. It is designed for

experiencing the joy of computer programming,
seeing mathematical ideas in use,
getting fundamental and powerful programming skills, that could kickstart a serious IT career.

Syllabus

FOR STUDENTS:

TEXTBOOK suitable for self-study
RECORDED LECTURES YouTube channel
Flyer for advertising the course
Syllabus detailed description, schedule, assessment, related courses
How To Code It? guidelines for computational problem solving
Reading Exercises are for traditional paper-based exams. The task is to determine what the one-liners evaluate to.
Coding exercises are for practising how to turn ideas into source code. Plans are given, the task is to express them as Clojure code.
Extra problems
Mini-projects require a bit more work than exercise problems.

Try the language online: maria(cljs) repl.it(clj)

FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS, COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCHERS

Conference presentations

2017 Clojure/conj slides, abstract, recorded video.
2018 ClojuTRE slides, recorded video

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Attila Egri-Nagy @EgriNagy

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