Students ask me all the time. "What's on the midterm exam?"

I answer, "Anything we went over in class or in the homeworks or the in class exercises." Here is a list I compiled from a review of my notes and the daily record.

• Functions are key! How do you write functions?
  1. Writing simple functions.
  2. Design recipes, thinking, writing, testing.
  3. Writing recursive functions over lists.
• Comprehensions and lists.
• Using types to classify programs.
• Defining your own datatypes
  1. Trees.
  2. Shapes for bitmap graphics
  3. The music datatype from Haskore.
• Testing
  1. HUnit.
  2. Quick check.
  3. An example.
• Programs as composable functions.
  1. The Excell library.
  2. Bit mapped graphics.
• Reasoning about programs.
  1. Proofs by induction.
  2. Using laws.
• Type classes.
• Libraries and external tools.
  1. Haskore and music.
  2. Cabal and installing external libraries.
  3. The color and ppm libraries.
  4. Graph Viz (see notes on Type classes).
• Using lazines.

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