[Haskell-cafe] I am new to haskell

[minh thu]

Hi,

Personnaly, I started to learn Haskell with A Gentle Introduction and
(from what I recall) really enjoyed it.

I find The Haskell School of Expression a bit problematic because it
interleaves information about the language with (although nice) large
running-through-all-the-chapter examples.

Anyway, welcome !
Thu

2008/5/8, Benjamin L. Russell <dekudekuplex at yahoo.com>:
> One hint that is not (at least to my knowledge) listed on haskell.org is
> that, according to at least one user (see "The Programmers' Stone » Blog
> Archive » A First Haskell Experience" at
> http://the-programmers-stone.com/2008/03/04/a-first-haskell-experience/),
> the online tutorials can "confuse more than they illuminate."
>
> Personally, I would recommend starting with one of the available books (see
> "Books - HaskellWiki" at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books), instead.  In
> particular, I would recommend one of the following titles:
>
> * Paul Hudak: The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional
> Programming through Multimedia, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000,
> 416 pp, 15 line diagrams, 75 exercises, Paperback $29.95, ISBN 0521644089,
> Hardback $74.95, ISBN 0521643384.  (See http://www.haskell.org/soe/.)
>   - This book uses multimedia examples to motivate learning Haskell, and is
> extremely interesting to read.  The one drawback I discovered was that some
> of the exercises assume trigonometry, which I had learned long ago but
> forgotten by the time I started reading this book.  In my opinion, this book
> is to Haskell as SICP is to Scheme (i.e., it is the authoritative textbook
> on this subject).
>
> * Kees Doets and Jan van Eijck: The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and
> Programming, King's College Publications, London, 2004, 14.00 pounds or
> $25.00, ISBN 0-9543006-9-6.  (See http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/.)
>   - While this book approaches Haskell from a proof-oriented, mathematical
> perspective guided toward proving program correctness, it assumes only
> elementary mathematics and is very easy to approach.  Personally, I found it
> much easier to follow than any of the existing online tutorials.
>
> Another tip is to write your own version of Towers of Hanoi (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi) in Haskell.  Writing your own
> original programs is usually a much quicker road to mastering a programming
> language than just reading books, because it forces you to think in the
> target programming language.
>
> Benjamin L. Russell
>
> --- On Thu, 5/8/08, Ambrish Bhargava <bhargava.ambrish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Ambrish Bhargava <bhargava.ambrish at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Haskell-cafe] I am new to haskell
> > To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
> > Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008, 1:37 PM
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am new to Haskell. Can anyone guide me how can I start on
> > it (Like getting
> > binaries, some tutorials)?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Ambrish
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