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Document Type	dissertation
Author Name	Yoo, Daniel
Email Address	dyoo at hashcollision.org
URN	etd-042612-104736
Title	Building Web Based Programming Environments for Functional Programming
Degree	PhD
Department	Computer Science
Advisors	Kathi Fisler, Advisor Shriram Krishnamurthi, Co-Advisor Joshua Guttman, Committee Member Charles Rich, Committee Member Craig Wills, Department Head
Keywords	web education javascript programming environments compilation
Date of Presentation/Defense	2012-02-24
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Functional programming offers an accessible and powerful algebraic model for computing. JavaScript is the language of the ubiquitous Web, but it does not support functional programs well due to its single-threaded, asynchronous nature and lack of rich control flow operators. The purpose of this work is to extend JavaScript to a language environment that satisfies the needs of functional programs on the Web. This extended language environment uses sophisticated control operators to provide an event-driven functional programming model that cooperates with the browser's DOM, along with synchronous access to JavaScript's asynchronous APIs. The results of this work are used toward two projects: (1) a programming environment called WeScheme that runs in the web browser and supports a functional programming curriculum, and (2) a tool-chain called Moby that compiles event-driven functional programs to smartphones, with access to phone-specific features.
Files	text-2012-04-26.pdf

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