Get Programming with Haskell
by Will Kurt · first published 2018
73% recommend27% neutral
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Small, incremental lessons that build on each other make it a structured entry point to Haskell. It pairs well with a longer reference or a hands-on course for working through the language.
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…beginners. My advice to beginners would be: - Read all the Haskell books available at your disposal. (In addition to LYAH and the Hutton book, I would say Learning Haskell From First Principles and Get Programming with Haskell are great, https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-haskell, http://haskellbook.com/) - When you hit something that doesn't make sense in one source, try referencing it in another source. -…
on “Learn You a Haskell for Great Good” ↗Haskell. A couple very solid books for Haskell came out in 2019 -- Get Programming with Haskell by Will Kurt, and Practical Haskell by Alejandro Serrano Mena -- and I was lucky enough to find a Functional Programming Meetup group in my area with some guys who write Haskell code every day. Currently…
on “Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?” ↗…Functional Programming in Scala [0] as my introduction to FP, so I had a little understanding of concepts in functional programming already, but in terms of just Haskell my recommendation would be that Get Programming with Haskell book by Will Kurt that I mentioned, which is targeted at beginners. Someone else added the Learn You a Haskell Book for Great Good! book online which is a good free online source as well, but since the…
on “Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?” ↗For me, Get Programming with Haskell by Will Kurt was much better than the 1300 page Haskell book. I loved it. https://www.amazon.com/Get-Programming-Haskell-Will-Kurt/dp/...
on “Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language” ↗I loved Get Programming with Haskell[0] and Finding Success and Failure in Haskell[1]. APress also published three books that I really liked: Practical Haskell[2]; Practical Concurrent Haskell[3]; and Practical Web Development in Haskell[4].…
on “Ask HN: Best Book to Learn Haskell?” ↗…job covering all the concepts the author mentioned. And they don't suffer from the online learning material problems. The two books I read and can recommend are Programming Haskell by Graham Hutton & Get programming with Haskell by Will Kurt. Another source that helped me a lot is the video series Category Theory by Bartosz Milewski [0]. It requires basically no background on category theory and defines all the concepts along…
on “Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)” ↗https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-haskell Get Programming With Haskell by Will Kurt. Made up of small lessons that all build on top of each other and will really help you understand what's going on. I wanted to like Effective Haskell but honestly…
on “Ask HN: What resources do you recommend for learning Haskell?” ↗how does 'stylish' compare with 'get programming with f#' ? i read get programming with haskell and it was good (even if too slow).
on “The Early History of F# [pdf]” ↗…and has a great ecosystem for many applications. And if you ever want to get into theorem-proving with Coq or Agda, knowing Haskell is a huge bonus. My suggested learning path is as follows: 1. Read Get Programming with Haskell and do the Haskell MOOC at https://haskell.mooc.fi/ at the same time. 2. Read sections in Haskell Programming from First Principles not covered in 1. 3. Read Haskell in Depth. Many years ago, I tried…
on “Is Haskell really the language of geniuses and academia? (2019)” ↗Here is the 2021 list for comparison: Algorithms and Data Structures in Action (MEAP) Algorithms of the Intelligent Web 2e Data Science with Python and Dask Data Wrangling with Javascript Get Programming with Haskell Grokking Algorithms Grokking Bitcoin Grokking Machine Learning (MEAP) Machine Learning in Action Math and Architectures of Deep Learning (MEAP) Math for Programmers Modern Fortran Practical Data…
on “Math for Programmers 2023” ↗…pragprog (30% off sale) * The entire collection of "Enthusiast's Guide to ..." from rockynook (each for $10) * "The Quick Python Book 3e", "Serverless Architectures on AWS", "Event Streams in Action", "Get Programming with Haskell" from Manning (50% off) These sales are the only way I can afford the volume I read. Some of that money would have gone to OReilly authors, but they deleted my full cart with $100 worth of stuff before…
on “O'Reilly's Decision and Its DRM Implication” ↗What about "Get Programming with Haskell"[0] from Manning. Is it any good? [0]https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-haskell
on “Learn You a Haskell for Great Good” ↗