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Competitive Programming in Haskell: reading large inputs with ByteString

Posted on October 12, 2019 by

In my last post in this series, we looked at building a small Scanner combinator library for lightweight input parsing. It uses String everywhere, and usually this is fine, but occasionally it’s not. A good example is the Kattis problem … Continue reading →

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Competitive Programming in Haskell: Scanner

Posted on May 22, 2019 by

In my previous post I explored solving a simple competitive programming problem in Haskell. The input of the problem just consisted of a bunch of lines containing specific data, so that we could parse it using lines and words. There … Continue reading →

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Competitive Programming in Haskell: Basic Setup

Posted on April 24, 2019 by

I am the coach of my school’s competitive programming team and enjoy solving problems on Open Kattis. Since Kattis accepts submissions in a wide variety of languages (including Haskell, OCaml, Rust, Common Lisp, and even Prolog), I often enjoy submitting … Continue reading →

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Hendrix teams at ACM ICPC

Posted on November 4, 2018 by

Today I took five students from Hendrix to Fort Smith to compete in the Mid-Central USA Regional of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Both teams solved five out of ten problems, and finished second and fourth out of … Continue reading →

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Call for submissions: FARM 2018

Posted on April 23, 2018 by

I’m the general chair this year for the ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (better known as FARM), which will be colocated with ICFP this September in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The goal of the workshop … Continue reading →

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My new programming languages course

Posted on January 13, 2017 by

tl;dr: my new PL course is now finished, and all the course materials are freely available. Working through all the exercises should be a great option for anyone wishing to learn some basics of programming language design and implementation. Last … Continue reading →

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Towards a new programming languages course: ideas welcome!

Posted on May 23, 2016 by

tl;dr: This fall, I will be teaching an undergraduate PL course, with a focus on practical language design principles and tools. Feedback, questions, assignments you can share with me, etc. are all most welcome! This fall, I will be teaching … Continue reading →

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