[Haskell-beginners] Training tasks

[Tom Murphy]

     I think that the idea is less to have a teaching tool, and more
to have a way to "shop around" for languages, by seeing what each
language is very good at.

Tom

On 4/18/12, umptious <umptious at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 April 2012 17:46, Nikita Beloglazov <nikita at taste-o-code.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>> I'm building website where people can try and "taste" new languages by
>> solving small or mediums size tasks. Tasks are language specific and
>> should
>> show best features of the language. Website is not meant to teach new
>> language but to give idea what is this language good for.
>> Now I want to add Haskell. I need about 7-10 tasks for now. First three of
>> four tasks are introductory, they should show/check basics of haskell.
>> E.g.
>> given n, return sum of squares of first n even numbers. Other tasks are
>> more complicated and show advantages of functional programming in general
>> or some specific haskell features.
>>
>
> I'd say that's the wrong criteria for a set of tasks and solutions. A
> better one would be to structure the list of tasks so that it teaches
> people what they need to know to write a fair range of programs in Haskell.
> This means working out what the main intellectual hurdles are in Haskell
> and structuring problems around them. So some "koans" as well as pieces
> designed to show "advantages",
>