TFPIE 2012 The International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education
In co-location with TFP 2012 - St.Andrews, Scotland June 11 2012

Welcome to the home site of TFPIE 2012.

The first International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2012, is co-located with TFP 2012 at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, professors, teachers, and all professionals that use or are interested in the use of functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas, and work in progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop.

The program chairs of TFPIE 2012 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or an article (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of all accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website/wiki. Any visitors to the TFPIE 2012 website/wiki will be able to add comments. This includes presenters who may respond to comments and questions as well as provide pointers to improvements and follow-up work. After the workshop, the PC will review the articles accepted for presentation to select the best for publication in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science journal (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and all extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC.

TFPIE 2012 welcomes submissions describing practical techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed, and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

If you are not sure if your work is appropriate for TFPIE 2012, please contact the PC chairs by e-mail at: tfpie2012@cs.ru.nl.

Organization

TFPIE'12 is organized by Marco T. Morazán (Seton Hall University, USA) and Peter Achten (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL). The programme committee is:

Venue

The University of St Andrews is Scotland's first university and the third oldest in the English-speaking world, founded in 1413. Over six centuries it has established a reputation as one of Europe's leading and most distinctive centers for teaching and research. St Andrews is situated on the east coast of Fife, Scotland, UK. The town is approximately 50 miles north-east of Edinburgh, 14 miles south-east of Dundee, 78 miles south of Aberdeen, and 82 miles east of Glasgow making it easily accessible by any means of transportation. Help on traveling to St Andrews can be found at: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/visiting/GettingtoStAndrews/ . General travel information within Scotland (including a travel planner) can be found at http://www.travelinescotland.com. More travel information can be found at: http://www-fp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/tifp/TFP2012/TFP_2012/TravelInfo.txt, including links to taxi companies.

• If you are travelling from Edinburgh airport, take AirLink Bus 100 (or a taxi) to Haymarket station, then take a train to Leuchars. From Leuchars, there is a bus or taxi direct to St Andrews. The University Accommodation is in New Hall, on the North Haugh Campus. There is a bus stop just before you enter St Andrews (ask the driver), which is < 5 mins walk from New Hall/the Jack Cole Building. Return tickets on the train or bus are cheaper than two singles. You probably want a standard class
  off-peak return on the train provided it is valid for the trains you want to catch.
• It is also possible to take a 747 bus from the airport to Inverkeithing station, then the train to Leuchars. This may be quicker than travelling via Haymarket, but the buses are less frequent and there are no food/coffee facilities at Inverkeithing station. If you do this, make sure the train you want to catch stops at Inverkeithing (most trains do, but a few express trains don't call here).
• If there are several of you travelling together, then a taxi direct from the airport may make sense. It would take just over an hour door-to-door. It is probably best to pre-book this: taxis at the airport are likely to be very expensive.
• If you are travelling by train, obviously go to Leuchars station, then take the bus or taxi as above.

A map of the North Haugh Campus and location of bus stops is here. The TFPIE (and TFP) venue is the Jack Cole Building (not shown on all maps), KY16 9SX. New Hall is KY16 9XW.

• You may also be interested in our mobile app (http://m.twoppy.com/tfp2012/), which has maps etc. This will need an active internet connection (3G, wifi) to use.

Important dates

Submissions procedure

The submissions procedure is as follows:

1. Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or an article (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style (deadline may 20). Please use the latest version of their LaTeX files. Submit your contribution to TFPIE - EasyChair.
2. You receive a notification of acceptance (deadline may 25). For dissemination purposes you prepare to have your preprint and presentation slides made publicly available on the TFPIE - wiki (instruction details follow).
3. Formal papers use the same EPTCS style files and are also submitted via TFPIE - EasyChair (instruction details follow).
4. You receive a notification of acceptance (deadline september 10). Accepted contributions prepare a camera-ready article that is to be submitted via the EPTCS system (instruction details follow).

Registration

Registration to TFPIE can be done via the TFP registration site. Please follow the instructions.

Registered participants

We welcome the following participants to TFPIE (in alphabetic order of surname):

Program

New: for your convenience, a single page program is available here.

Discussion forum

We'd like to end TFPIE with a discussion that allows all participants to get involved. This will be open-ended, but among the things we'd like to talk about are these, so you might like to think about these - as well as bringing your own questions and discussion topics. For discussion …

• what have been the successes and failures of the TFPIE community since the first meeting on functional programming in Education in Nijmegen in 2005?
• do we have any shared goals for the next 5 years? 10 years?
• what might we do together as a community? we've talked before about sharing materials and information about courses and approaches to teaching, for instance
• how can we facilitate for students the transfer of FP ideas/techniques to non-FL?
• how can we use FP to improve courses in new trends like bioinformatics, computational chemistry, parallel programming, etc.?

TFPIE wiki

A wiki has been set up for TFPIE. In it, you can find the draft papers of the workshop, as well as other material that the authors and participants have made available.

Dinner after workshop

Kevin Hammond has reserved tables for dinner after the TFPIE workshop at the Thai / Japanese restaurant Nahm-Jim from 18:30h - 20:00h. He would like to have an estimate number of people who like to attend. Please note that you need to pay dinner for yourself. The estimate cost is about £25 per person plus drinks. Vegetarians are welcome.

Please reply to the tfpie mail adress if you like to attend. Note that on the event we will poll again to get exact numbers.

Meet before TFPIE

If you like you can join and have drinks on sunday june 10 before the workshop. We plan to meet in "The Central" Bar at about 20:00h. This bar is located on 77 Market Street. Besides drinks, it also serves dinner.

last update: June 9 2012