[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tutorial uploaded

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2005 20:07 schrieb Sebastian Sylvan:
> [...]

> It's sometimes beneficial to "lie" a bit when starting out. Perhaps
> say something like "this is a simplified view of things, for all the
> gory details see chapter 19".
>
> Monadic IO is pretty darn cool, sadly that means that many tutorial
> authors are tempted to spend pages upon pages explaining exactly why
> it's cool and how it works, but that is NOT what most people starting
> out with the language need to read.
>
> I'm still looking for a good *practical* tutorial that I could
> recommend to newcomers.
> IO, data types and QuickCheck in the very first chapter, I say! Real
> program examples from the get go, and go into the theory on why this
> has been hard in FP before Haskell (or Monadic IO rather) much much
> later, so as to not scare people away.

I think that there are cases where it's better to start with ordinary 
functional programming and come to I/O later.  In my opinion, an example case 
would be teaching Haskell at a university.

> /S

/W