Poetry of Programming - Puzzle Based Introduction to Functional Programming

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

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

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