Abstract: Haskell in Space!

Haskell in Space!
An Interactive Game as a Functional Programming Exercise.

Christoph Lüth
FB 3 - Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Bremen

This short paper describes the final practical exercise in a functional programming course for second year computer science students at the University of Bremen. The exercise was to implement a small game involving a space ship in an asteroids belt, after the fashion of the classic Asteroids arcade game. We suggest that interactive graphics programs of this kind make good and entertaining programming exercises for functional programming courses.


Christoph Lüth, 19.12.02