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Imagine programming with only pure functions.

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Imagine programs that are shorter,

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more elegant, easier to reason about,

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and better to execute in parallel on modern manycore processors

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and massive datacenters.

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You've just imagined functional programming.

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In this introduction to functional programming in Haskell

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you will learn powerful functional programming techniques

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such as 

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immutable data structures,

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higher order functions, 

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and lambdas.

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Learning functional programming will make you a better programmer

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whatever the language you use.

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These are just some of the reasons why functional programming is growing in popularity.

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Smashing Magazine describes functional as 'the hipster of programming paradigms'.

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All major tech companies are adopting functional programming techniques,

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whether it's Scala at Twitter,

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MapReduce at Google, 

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or Haskell at Facebook.

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In fact, early work on the Haskell functional programming language took place here

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at the University of Glasgow,

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and we've been teaching it to our
undergraduate 

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Computing Science students for many years.

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This course is aimed at people who have some prior programming experience

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but want to discover functional programming for themselves.

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We introduce the Haskell language

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with interactive tutorials and practical programming exercises.

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We'll take you from the basics through to advanced features of functional programming.

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And don't worry, we'll deconstruct all the alarming buzzwords and phrases

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from lambda calculus

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to monads.

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Also, in a series of exclusive interviews with key Haskell language designers, 

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we will explore the history, present status and 

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future prospects of functional programming.

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Functional languages are becoming more and more popular.

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All mainstream languages are incorporating functional constructs.

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So now is the time to begin functional programming in Haskell.

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We hope you'll join us on this course.