[Haskell-cafe] Learning about Programming Languages (specifically Haskell)

[Samuel Williams]

Dear Stephen,

The goal of the site is not an introduction to programming for the beginner.

Its a site designed to expose students and teachers to the multitudes of programming languages out there.

DrScheme looks like a good approach.

Kind regards,
Samuel

On 4/05/2010, at 4:03 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote:

> Hi Samuel
> 
> I'm not sure Haskell is an ideal language for school age teaching,
> DrScheme seems a more obvious choice.
> 
> Paul Hudak made a good case for Haskell as a learning language with
> his School of Expression book, but if you weren't directly following
> that book, I think it would be hard to make the teaching fun (which
> I'd expect to be the major battle for teaching kids). Obvious problems
> - cryptic error messages, hiatus from graphics / multimedia, lack of a
> text book (if not using School of Expression)...
> 
> That said, there were some nice slides from John Peterson about
> teaching summer school mathematics where Haskell was used 'under the
> hood' to create music or draw pictures. The students certainly weren't
> exposed to full Haskell - just a very small core that was largely
> familiar from maths, plus specific functions to compose pictures /
> music.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Stephen
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