Friday Hacks #172: Haskell, and lightning talks

Schedule:
6:30–7:00pm: Food and chit-chat
7:00–7:45pm: First talk
7:45–8:10pm: Second talk

Talk #1: Structuring and working with data in Haskell

Description
Functional programming is an increasingly practical approach to providing structure to problems. We offer a beginner's perspective to structuring and working with data in Haskell, a purely-functional language.

Speaker
Noel is currently an intern at an insurance technology firm, working with NodeJS. He is currently learning Haskell using Haskell Book on the side.

Lightning Talk #2: A Telegram code evaluator

Description
We discuss briefly the implementation and security concerns of a Telegram bot that evaluates arbitrary code in multiple languages.

Speaker
Hao Wei is a computer science undergraduate and an NUS Hackers coreteam member.

Lightning Talk #3: Surprise?
There may be an additional short talk at the end. Come down to find out!

Supported by The HANGAR by NUS Enterprise — the campus hub for entrepreneurs

This week’s session is also supported by Indeed Singapore. Indeed is the #1 job site in the world with over 250 million unique visitors every month. Indeed strives to put job seekers first, giving them free access to search for jobs, post resumes, and research companies.