Carnegie Mellon University · 15-150

Principles of Functional Programming

函数式编程原理

Functional programming in Standard ML, with types, abstraction, correctness proofs, work and span analysis, modules, and parallelism.

Subject：Standard ML

Level：Intermediate

Suggested stage：Year 2 (inferred)

Public-material edition：2026

Language：English

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CMU 15-112 or 15-122CMU 15-151 or equivalent discrete mathematics

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Topic 1: Functional Programming Topic 2: Types Topic 3: Recursion Topic 4: Higher-Order Functions Topic 5: Inductive Data Topic 6: Polymorphism Topic 7: Modules Topic 8: Lazy Evaluation Topic 9: Streams Topic 10: Parallelism Topic 11: Cost Semantics Topic 12: Functional Program Design

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