Functional Programming

Graham Hutton, University of Nottingham

Overview

This is an introductory course on functional programming in Haskell. It is designed for first year computing students in Nottingham, but the lectures are also made available on YouTube.

The course is based on part I of Programming in Haskell.

Textbook

      

Lectures

The course starts in January 2026, and two videos will be released here per week.

1. Course Overview
2. Haskell Demo
3. Introduction
4. First Steps
5. Types and Classes
6. Defining Functions
7. List Comprehensions
8. Recursive Functions
9. Exercises on Recursion
10. Higher-Order Functions
11. How To Think Recursively
12. Declaring Types and Classes
13. The Countdown Problem
14. Interactive Programming
15. Exercises on Interaction
16. Lazy Evaluation
17. Course Wrap Up

Additional material:

• YouTube playlist
• Demo code
• Lecture slides
• Standard prelude

Resources

• Course moodle page (internal version of this page)
• Haskell home page (for all things Haskell)
• GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler)
• Hoogle (for searching the libraries)