Function composition is a good practice: nifty assignment

  • Authors:

  • Cong-Cong Xing

  • Affiliations:

  • Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Functional programming (FP) is an important programming paradigm that differs dramatically from imperative programming paradigm. It was a unanimous agreement and a strong recommendation by the program committee in the First ACM SIGPLANWorkshop on Undergraduate Programming Language Curricula [1] that FP is to be included in the undergraduate computer science curriculum. In this abstract, we introduce a FP assignment that, we believe, would be helpful for students to grasp some key features and flavors of FP.