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Haskell in Space: An interactive game as a functional programming exercise

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Journal of Functional Programming, Volume 13, Issue 6

Pages 1077 - 1085

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956796803004891

Published: 01 November 2003 Publication History

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This paper describes a practical exercise set to an introductory functional programming course. The exercise is to implement a small game involving a space ship in an asteroids belt, after the fashion of the classic Asteroids arcade game. The positive experience suggests that interactive graphics programs of this kind make good and entertaining programming exercises for functional programming courses.

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Journal of Functional Programming Volume 13, Issue 6

November 2003

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Almeida JCunha AMacedo NPacheco HProença J(2018)Teaching how to program using automated assessment and functional glossy games (experience report)Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages10.1145/32367772:ICFP(1-17)Online publication date: 30-Jul-2018
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Morazán M(2010)Functional video games in the CS1 classroomProceedings of the 11th international conference on Trends in functional programming10.5555/2035141.2035152(166-183)Online publication date: 17-May-2010
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Curtis SFindler RHanus MThompson S(2005)Word puzzles in HaskellProceedings of the 2005 workshop on Functional and declarative programming in education10.1145/1085114.1085119(15-18)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1085114.1085119

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