## Announcements ##
-* This is the time of the semester when some people start slipping
- behind with the homework. Don't.
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+* We've added a page on [[Translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell]]
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+* We've added some [commentary](/hints/assignment_6_commentary) on some common issues in your solutions to [[Assignment6]].
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+* We've added a [[Monad Library]] for OCaml.
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+* We've posted a [[State Monad Tutorial]].
[[Older Announcements]]
There is also now a [library](/lambda_library) of lambda-calculus
arithmetical and list operations, some relatively advanced.
+##[[Monad Library]]##
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## Lecture Notes and Assignments ##
(15 Nov) Lecture notes for [[Week9]]; [[Assignment7]]. Everyone auditing in the class is encouraged to do this assignment, or at least work through the substantial "hints".
-> Topics: Mutable Variables; Passing by Reference
+> Topics: Mutable Variables; Passing by Reference; [[State Monad Tutorial]] (added recently)
(22 Nov) Lecture notes for [[Week10]]
(30 Nov) Lecture notes for [[Week11]]; [[Assignment8]].
-> Topics: Zippers, Continuations
+> Topics: [[Tree and List Zippers]]; [[Coroutines and Aborts]]; [[From List Zippers to Continuations]]
-(6 Dec) Lecture notes for Week12
+(6 Dec) Lecture notes for [[Week12]]; [[Assignment9]].
-(13 Dec) Lecture notes for Week13
+> Topics: [[List Monad as Continuation Monad]]; [[Manipulating Trees with Monads]] (updated); [[Monad Transformers]] (added recently)
-[[Upcoming topics]]
+(13 Dec) Lecture notes for Week13; [[Assignment10]].
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+> Topics: [[CPS and Continuation Operators]]; Curry-Howard
[[Advanced Topics]]
-> Topics: Version 4 lists, Monads in Category Theory, Calculator Improvements
+> Topics: Version 4 lists, Monads in Category Theory
##Scheme and OCaml##
* Links for help [[learning OCaml]]
+* [[Translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell]]
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##[[Offsite Reading]]##
[[Family tree of functional programming languages]]
+[[Translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell]]
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+## What is Functional Programming? ##
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+Here's a [survey conducted at Microsoft](http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=141506) asking programmers what they understand "functional programming" to be. Don't take their responses to be authoritative... this is a just a "man in the street" (seat?) poll.
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+Read more about the [uptake of Haskell](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html) among programmers in the street.
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## Recommended Books ##