[plt-scheme] CFP: FDPE08: Functional and Declarative Programming in Education

                          Call for Papers
      Functional and Declarative Programming in Education (FDPE08)
            http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/fdpe08/
              Victoria, BC, Canada, 21 September, 2008
        The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICFP 2008.
                http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2008/

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:          Friday, June 20, 2008
Notification of acceptance:   Friday, July 25, 2008
Final revision due:           Monday, July 14, 2008
Workshop:                     Sunday, September 21, 2008

Goals of the Workshop
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Functional and declarative programming plays an increasingly
important role in computing education at all levels. The aim of this
workshop is to bring together educators and others who are interested
in exchanging ideas on how to use a functional or declarative
programming style in the classroom or in e-learning
environments. Beyond the traditional focus of teaching programming by
means of the functional or declarative paradigm, we are especially
interested in case studies showing how these languages can be
elegantly applied in teaching other topics of computer science (such
as Appel's use of ML to teach compiler construction).  Another
interesting area covered by the workshop should be dedicated to
teaching functional or declarative programming ideas in industrial
environments.  Functional and declarative languages have become more
influential in industry.  Thus, teaching such languages has become an
interesting topic, as it must take into consideration long
programming experiences in imperative languages.

Topics:
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The workshop will cover a wide spectrum of functional and declarative
programming techniques:

     * programming courses using traditional functional and
       declarative programming languages (e.g. Haskell, Mathematica,
       ML, Prolog, Scheme, etc);
     * programming courses teaching functional programming in
       commercial languages (e.g. C, C++, Common LISP, etc);
     * programming courses teaching functional program design in
       modern OO languages (e.g. Java, C#, Eiffel, etc);
     * pedagogic programming environments to support functional and
       declarative programming;
     * teaching tools implemented with functional and declarative
       languages and/or ideas;
     * declarative programming language extensions and implementations
       with pedagogical relevance;
     * application courses that benefit heavily from functional and
       declarative programming (e.g. theorem proving or hardware
       design).

Furthermore, the workshop will also cover all levels of education:

     * secondary school;
     * college and university;
     * post-college and continuing professional education.

FDPE will be held in conjunction with the 13th ACM SIGPLAN
International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2008) in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on Sunday, September 21, 2008.
Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, or
education-related projects.  In order to encourage lively discussion,
submitted papers may describe new ideas of education as well as
project proposals about incorporating functional and declarative
concepts into education curricula. All papers will be judged on a
combination of correctness, significance, novelty, clarity, and
interest to the community.  All paper submissions must be at most 12
pages total length in the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference
format (9pt).  Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will
appear in the ACM Digital Library.  Submissions will be refereed by
the program commitee who will call upon other members involved in
teaching in related areas for expert advice.  More details about the
submission procedure will be announced on the FDPE website at
http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/fdpe08/

Registration, hotels, travel, etc.
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Information about registration, accommodation, and travel will
eventually be available on the main conference web site
(http://www.icfpconference.org/)

Program Committee
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     * John Clements, California Polytechnic State University, United
       States
     * Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, United States
     * Michael Hanus, University of Kiel, Germany
     * Frank Huch, University of Kiel, Germany (co-chair)
     * Adam Parkin, University of Victoria, Canada (co-chair)
     * Simon Thompson, University of Kent, UK
     * Mads Torgersen, Microsoft Redmond, United States