[Haskell-cafe] admission to graduate program in CS

2010-12-13 Thread Johann Bach
Hello list, I am a programmer who just got laid off. I have been studying Haskell and learning a lot about CS, *as a hobby*. I have a B.S. from Caltech in engineering (didn't take many CS classes). Now that my options are open, I'd like to think about graduate school in CS which is probably the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] admission to graduate program in CS

2010-12-13 Thread Johann Bach
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Johann Bach johann.bach1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I am a programmer who just got laid off. I have been studying Haskell and learning a lot about CS, *as a hobby*. Oh, I just thought of one answer to my own question--- get a good score on the CS GRE. Can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] admission to graduate program in CS

2010-12-13 Thread Johann Bach
Can I get some recommendations for CS textbooks to study for the CS GRE? Note that I am already fluent in C++ and Python (and getting better at Haskell), so I don't need hand-holding in learning the very basics... however, I do need to review the standard theory. For example, if the GRE asks: What

[Haskell-cafe] running ghci simply

2010-09-06 Thread Johann Bach
Is there a way to run a Haskell module via ghci with a single command on the command-line? Note: I'm on Windows XP. If I have the module test.hs, I can type test.hs and that will load it into ghci. However, I need to then type main to run it, and then manually exit ghci. I would like to do all