[Haskell-cafe] New book: Real-World Haskell!

[Tom Harper]

I really hope they choose the flying squirrel.

On 5/23/07, Dan Weston <westondan at imageworks.com> wrote:
> What power animal have you chosen for the cover of your O'Reilly book?
> Alas, most of the good ones are gone already!
>
> Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart and John Goerzen are pleased, and frankly,
> > very excited to announce that were developing a new book for O'Reilly, on
> > practical Haskell programming. The working title is Real-World Haskell.
> >
> > The plan is to cover the major techniques used to write serious,
> > real-world Haskell code, so that programmers can just get to work in the
> > language. By the end of the book readers should be able to write real
> > libraries and applications in Haskell, and be able to:
> >
> >     * design data structures
> >     * know how to write, and when to use, monads and monad transformers
> >     * use Haskells concurrency and parallelism abstractions
> >     * be able to write parsers for custom formats in Parsec.
> >     * be able to do IO and binary IO of all forms
> >     * be able to bind Haskell to foreign functions in C
> >     * be able to do database, network and gui programming
> >     * know how to do exception and error handling in Haskell
> >     * have a good knowledge of the core libraries
> >     * be able to use the type system to track and prevent errors
> >     * take advantage of tools like QuickCheck, Cabal and Haddock
> >     * understand advanced parts of the language, such as GADTs and MPTCs.
> >
> > That is, you should be able to just write Haskell!
> >
> > The existing handful of books about Haskell are all aimed at teaching
> > programming to early undergraduate audiences, so they are ill-suited to
> > people who already know how to code. And while theres a huge body of
> > introductory material available on the web, you have to be both
> > tremendously motivated and skilled to find the good stuff and apply it
> > to your own learning needs.
> >
> > The time has come for the advanced, practical Haskell book.
> >
> > Heres the proposed chapter outline:
> >
> >    1. Why functional programming? Why Haskell?
> >    2. Getting started: compiler, interpreter, values, simple functions, and types
> >    3. Syntax, type system basics, type class basics
> >    4. Write a real library: the rope data structure, cabal, building projects
> >    5. Typeclasses and their use
> >    6. Bringing it all together: file name matching and regular expressions
> >    7. All about I/O
> >    8. I/O case study: a DSL for searching the filesystem
> >    9. Code case study: barcode recognition
> >   10. Testing the Haskell way: QuickCheck
> >   11. Handling binary files and formats
> >   12. Designing and using data structures
> >   13. Monads
> >   14. Monad case study: refactoring the filesystem seacher
> >   15. Monad transformers
> >   16. Using parsec: parsing a bioinformatics format
> >   17. Interfacing with C: the FFI
> >   18. Error handling
> >   19. Haskell for systems programming
> >   20. Talking to databases: Data.Typeable
> >   21. Web client programming: client/server networking
> >   22. GUI programming: gtk2hs
> >   23. Data mining and web applications
> >   24. Basics of concurrent and parallel Haskell
> >   25. Advanced concurrent and parallel programming
> >   26. Concurrency case study: a lockless database with STM
> >   27. Performance and efficiency: profiling
> >   28. Advanced Haskell: MPTCs, TH, strong typing, GADTs
> >   29. Appendices
> >
> > We're seeking technical reviewers from both inside and outside the
> > Haskell community, to help review and improve the content, with the
> > intent that this text will become the standard reference for those
> > seeking to learn serious Haskell. If you'd like to be a reviewer, please
> > drop us a line at book-review-interest at realworldhaskell.org, and let us
> > know a little about your background and areas of interest.
> >
> > Finally, a very exciting aspect of this project is that O'Reilly has
> > agreed to publish chapters online, under a Creative Commons License!
> > Well be publishing chapters incrementally, and seeking feedback from our
> > reviewers and readers as we go.
> >
> > You can find more details and updates at the following locations:
> >
> >     * The web site, http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/welcome/
> >     * The authors,  http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/about/
> >     * The blog,     http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/
> >
> > -- Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart and John Goerzen.
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