Advanced programming 2014

Course code: ITT8060

Lecturers: James Chapman, Juhan Ernits, Wolfgang Jeltsch

Contact: itt8060@cs.ttu.ee

Time and place:

Lectures: Wednesdays 10:00, ICT-A1 Labs: Wednesdays 12:00, ICT-401, (ICT-637 is a backup room)

You can download Visual Studio via the Microsoft DreamSpark program. You will need to register as a user at a local server and then wait for an e-mail from Dreamspark. Students will have access to a wide range of Microsoft products for study purposes at no cost.

If you want to set up your development environment in a virtual machine, you are welcome to get a license of VMware Workstation via the VMware Academic Program. You will need to contact us at vmware at cs.ttu.ee to gain access.

Installing F# tools on Linux is described here.

Installing F# tools on a Mac is described here.

For Dreamspark access please visit [1] and register an account.

Textbook

• Tomas Petricek with Jon Skeet: Real-world functional programming with examples in F# and C#

- 10 copies at TUT: [2] - Several copies available in Tartu

• Additional textbook

Don Syme: Expert F#

- 5 copies at TUT: [3]

Lecture notes and courseworks

Available at [4].

Access to DreamSpark

DreamSpark is a Microsoft program to give students access to various Microsoft tools. You will be able to get Visual Studio for no cost as students enrolled to the course. Please go to [5] and register for your DreamSpark account. After receiving credentials by e-mail you will be able to download the products of interest.