A very warm welcome to St John’s College and to the Department of Computer Science!
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I’m writing to you as your college tutor in Computer Science. Many congratulations on
receiving an offer to study in Oxford. I’m very much looking forward to meeting you in
person in October.

It would be useful preparation if you play around with the programming language Haskell, which will be important in the Functional Programming course in the first term. I would recommend the tutorial at learnyouahaskell.github and installing a Haskell environment <https://www.haskell.org/downloads/> and trying it out.

You might want to look at the reading list that the department has compiled.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at stekie@cs.ox.ac.uk at any time. See you in October!

Stefan Kiefer
Professor of Computer Science
Fellow of St John’s College

Computer Science Joint Schools

If you hold an offer for Maths and Computer Science, you can find the Maths materials via the links below.

Maths

Virtual Open Day

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Study skills for incoming undergraduates

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Starting at Oxford

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