Passing Curiosity

The Fun of Programming

The Fun of Programming edited by Jeremy Gibbons and Oege de Moor. (buy)

My copy of The Fun of Programming came in the other day and I've been looking through it. It has chapters covering a wide range of topics:

  1. functional data-structures, amortised analysis, etc.;
  2. testing and specification with QuickCheck;
  3. programming with folds, unfolds, etc.;
  4. music programming;
  5. representing financial contracts;
  6. graphics programming;
  7. hardware description;
  8. combinators;
  9. arrows; and
  10. phantom types
amongst other topics. This looks to be a fascinating mixture of methods (data-structures, testing, folds, arrows, etc.) and applications (music, graphics, financial contacts, hardware description, logic programming, etc.) if a little thin for its price.

Both the software from the book and details about the symposium from which its content comes are available on the Oxford Computing Laboratory web-site.

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Thomas Sutton 05 May 2006