This class was interesting, but very difficult. Perkins does a great job of explaining the theory behind class materials, but glossed over the actual programming components of the class (which after the first few assignments can become a big issue). Half of my class dropped in the first 3 weeks. However, I do think the class is manageable if you have a friend taking it with you and if you always go to discussions/office hours.

Course Grading
Homework assignments 75% (8 total, lowest score dropped)
Final project 25% (coding project and final paper)

I liked this class! It was difficult but not unfairly so. I was intimidated by haskell at first but by the end it was almost fun. If you enjoy computer programming this class will be a good experience. The only catch is that despite being a LING course, you won't be doing much linguistics at all till the end of the quarter.

I absolutely loved this class! Prof. Perkins is a great lecturer who breaks down the concepts in a clear and understandable way. The grading scheme is 75% homework and 25% final project, which is quite nice since there are no exams. The homeworks are pretty weighty though and really start to pick up after HW 3. Most of the homeworks involve writing Haskell code. It can be a big change to go from typical programming languages like C++ and python to a functional language like Haskell, but I thought it was pretty manageable since Perkins taught us everything we needed to know about Haskell for the purposes of the course.