TFPIE2016
The 5th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2016, will be held on June 7, 2016 at the University of Maryland College Park in the USA. It is co-located with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2016) which takes place from June 8 - 10.
Goal
The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, teachers and professionals that use, or are interested in the use of, functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas and work-in-progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. The program chair of TFPIE 2016 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website/wiki. Visitors to the TFPIE 2016 website/wiki will be able to add comments. This includes presenters who may respond to comments and questions as well as provide pointers to improvements and follow-up work. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012), Provo Utah, USA (2013), Soesterberg, The Netherlands (2014), and Sophia-Antipolis, France (2015).
Program
09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk: Matthias Felleisen
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:10 Scott Walck
Learn Quantum Mechanics with Haskell
11:10 - 11:50 Elena Machkasova, Henry Fellows, Thomas Hagen and Sean Stockholm
Usability of beginner-oriented Clojure error messages
11:50 - 12:30 Victor Winter, Betty Love and Cindy Corritore
The Bricklayer Ecosystem - Art, Math, and Code
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 Panel Discussion
What _doesn't_ work in FP? What _unexpectedly_ works?
14:40 - 15:30 Prabhakar Ragde
Proust: A Nano Proof Assistant
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:40 Youyou Cong and Akiko Mito
A half-day class in OCaml for non-CS major students
16:40 - 17:30 Tim Steenvoorden, Jurriën Stutterheim, Erik Barendsen and Rinus Plasmeijer
Monad Education Supported by Visualisations
Submission Guidelines
TFPIE 2016 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
FP and beginning CS students FP and Computational Thinking FP and Artificial Intelligence FP in Robotics FP and Music Advanced FP for undergraduates FP in graduate education Engaging students in research using FP FP in Programming Languages FP in the high school curriculum FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics FP and Philosophy Best Lectures
In addition to papers, we are requesting “best lecture” presentations. What’s your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees.
Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2016
It is expected at at least one author for each submitted paper will attend the workshop.
Registration & Local Information
Please see the TFP site for registration and local information:
Important Dates
April 27, 2016: Submission deadline for draft TFPIE papers and abstracts
May 3, 2016: Notification of acceptance for presentation
May 13, 2016: Registration for TFP/TFPIE closes
June 7, 2016: Presentations in Maryland, USA
July 7, 2016: Full papers for EPTCS proceedings due.
September 1, 2016: Notification of acceptance for proceedings
September 22, 2016: Camera ready copy due for EPTCS
Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full version; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the full paper deadline will be considered as withdrawn.
Program Committee
Stephen Chang at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, USA
Marc Feeley at Université de Montréal in Québec, Canada
Patricia Johann at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA
Jay McCarthy at University of Massachusetts Lowell in Massachusetts, USA (Chair)
Prabhakar Ragde at University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada
Brent Yorgey at Hendrix College in Arkansas, USA