[Haskell-beginners] The Book

[mukesh tiwari]

Hi Emanuel
Added some links which I know but I would suggest to follow the links on
Haskell wiki.


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Emanuel Koczwara <poczta at emanuelkoczwara.pl
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > No, because it would be bigger than you could lift and would contain a
> > lot of stuff you probably don't care about (are you really interested
> > in how Haskell interacts with category theory?  As a working
> > programmer, are you interested in exploring the outer corners of type
> > theory?)
>
>   I know "Learn You a Haskell" and "Real World Haskell". They are very
> helpful, but there is number of topics not covered by these books.
>
>   I want to learn Haskell in finite time, but having infinite number of
> resources will not help (books, wiki pages, tutorials, blogs, articles,
> I'm probably overestimating, but this is how it looks from beginner
> perspective).
>

>   After "Learn You a Haskell" and "Real World Haskell" I was jumping
> from topic to topic at Wiki. And it blows my mind, I don't know what I
> don't know, and this is very bad. So I have a list of topics that I'm
> aware of, and I need to study them:
>
> Arrows
>
http://ertes.de/new/tutorials/arrows.html
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/afp-arrows.pdf

> Continuation passing style
>
http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/12/the-continuation-monad.html
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Continuation_passing_style

> Existentially quantified types
>
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Existentially_quantified_types

> Generalised algebraic data-types
>
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/GADT

> Functional reactive programming
> Data structures (not lists, not maps and not binary trees, data
> structures in general)
>
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf

> Dynamic types
> Heterogenous collections
> Phantom types
> Template Haskell
> Functional dependencies
>
>   But I'm afraid that many things will be untouched with that approach.
> For example I've found that map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] is really
> map :: forall a b. (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b], I've found ~ (in pattern
> matching) and I've found a way to set a field with record syntax (val
> { feld1 = 'a', field2 = 0}). All this by clicking random links on wiki
> and google. The problem is, I don't have a roadmap. I was looking for a
> book that describes all what I need to know, and it points out
> everything what I need or could learn.
>
>   If such a book doesn't exist, where can I find a list (finite) of
> "must read" resources to fully understund Haskell (or at last in 80%)?
>
> Emanuel
>
>
>
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