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1. Re: suggested course of action (Magnus Therning)
2. Re: Where does a real beginner begin? Scheme+SICP? Real
World Haskell? (Benjamin L. Russell)
3. Re: suggested course of action (Benjamin L. Russell)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:48:32 +0100
From: Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] suggested course of action
To: prad <p...@towardsfreedom.com>
Cc: haskellbeginners <beginners@haskell.org>
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 18:33, prad <p...@towardsfreedom.com> wrote:
> greetings!
>
> i am very intrigued with haskell having acquired some experience in
> pascal, elisp, c, perl, mostly python and some sql.
>
> i've been going through various tutorials and the online real world
> haskell. i've also been reading through the haskell98 report at
> appropriate points.
>
> are there any recommended approaches for learning and studying haskell?
Using haskell to write programs! ;-)
/M
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:26:10 +0900
From: dekudekup...@yahoo.com (Benjamin L. Russell)
Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Re: Where does a real beginner begin?
Scheme+SICP? Real World Haskell?
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Amiruddin Nagri <amir.na...@gmail.com> writes:
> If you purpose is only learning Haskell, then you can pick up either
> of Real World Haskell or Programming in Haskell (there are also video
> lectures available covering this book).
>
> But SICP is something that as a programmer you have to go over once in
> a lifetime.
Another book that you may be interested in reading after either of the
introductory Haskell books mentioned above is _The Haskell School of
Expression_ ("SOE") (see http://www.haskell.org/soe/), by Paul Hudak.
The book does assume some understanding of trigonometry, but can be very
interesting to read.
-- Benjamin L. Russell
>
> Regards,
> Amiruddin Nagri,
> Bangalore, 560008, KA
> India
>
> Y! IM : amir_na...@yahoo.com
> GTalk : amir.na...@gmail.com
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Greg Morell <g...@sixflagsmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not much of a programmer. Â I've only used PHP and Ruby for the last 10
>> years. Â But I've heard so many wonderful things about Haskell, I'd like to
>> really spend the time to learn it.
>>
>> No particular purpose, except to broaden my mind and get to know (what I
>> hear is) a completely different way of thinking about programming.
>>
>> But what's the best way to start from scratch?
>>
>> Should I start with "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" book
>> and Scheme as my intro? Â Then afterwards, get into the Real World Haskell
>> book?
>>
>> Or just start with Haskell directly?
>>
>> Any advice appreciated.
>>
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:57:12 +0900
From: dekudekup...@yahoo.com (Benjamin L. Russell)
Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Re: suggested course of action
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prad <p...@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
> greetings!
>
> i am very intrigued with haskell having acquired some experience in
> pascal, elisp, c, perl, mostly python and some sql.
>
> i've been going through various tutorials and the online real world
> haskell. i've also been reading through the haskell98 report at
> appropriate points.
>
> are there any recommended approaches for learning and studying haskell?
In addition to _Real World Haskell,_ have you checked out _Programming
in Haskell_ (see http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html), by Graham
Hutton? Duncan Coutts has written a detailed review of the title (see
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book-review.pdf).
In addition, the #haskell channel (see
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel) (with an average of 655
users) is available on the Freenode IRC network.
One idea is to find an interesting but workable topic, and try coding it
in Haskell. With the help of some other Haskellers on the Haskell-Cafe
mailing list, I once coded a simple Haskell program to associate names
of wines to choices of menu items. Along these lines, you may be
interested in investigating the following programming exercise sites:
Project Euler
A series of mathematical/computer programming problems
http://projecteuler.net/
Rosetta Code
A programming chrestomathy site
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page
-- Benjamin L. Russell
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