[Fwd: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes]

[Mike Pentney]

As well as books and reading material online, nowadays you can also find 
video lectures...for example, the following was at the top of Googling 
"category theory video":

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/09/the_catsters_on_youtube.html

Cheers,

Mike.

Nick Rudnick wrote:
> I haven't seen anybody mentioning «Joy of Cats» by  Adámek, Herrlich & 
> Strecker:
>
> It is available online, and is very well-equipped with thorough 
> explanations, examples, exercises & funny illustrations, I would say 
> best of university lecture style: 
> http://katmat.math.uni-bremen.de/acc/. (Actually, the name of the book 
> is a joke on the set theorists' book «Joy of Set», which again is a 
> joke on «Joy of Sex», which I once found in my parents' bookshelf... ;-))
>
> Another alternative: Personally, I had difficulties with the somewhat 
> arbitrary terminology, at times a hindrance to intuitive understanding 
> - and found intuitive access by programming examples, and the book was 
> «Computational Category Theory» by Rydeheart & Burstall, also now 
> available online at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~david/categories/book/, 
> done with the functional language ML. Later I translated parts of it 
> to Haskell which was great fun, and the books content is more beginner 
> level than any other book I've seen yet.
>
> The is also a programming language project dedicated to category 
> theory, «Charity», at the university of Calgary: 
> http://pll.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/charity1/www/home.html.
>
> Any volunteers in doing a RENAME REFACTORING of category theory 
> together with me?? ;-))
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Nick
>