[Haskell-cafe] Teaching FP with Haskell

[Andrew Butterfield]

Rustom,
 you should look at Helium
  - http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/bin/view/Helium/WebHome


Andrew.

On 21 May 2013, at 10:55, Rustom Mody wrote:

> We are offering a MOOC on haskell :
> https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python
> 
> Full Announcement on beginners list :
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/beginners/2013-May/012013.html
> 
> One question that I have been grappling with in this regard:
> How to run ghc in lightweight/beginner mode?
> 
> 2 examples of what I mean:
> 
> 1. gofer used to come with an alternative standard prelude -- 'simple.pre'
>     Using this, gofer would show many of the type-class based errors as simple (non-type-class based) errors.
>     This was very useful for us teachers to help noobs start off without intimidating them.
> 2. Racket comes with a couple of levels.  The easier numbers were not completely consistent with scheme semantics, but 
>     was gentle to beginners
> 
> Any thoughts/inputs on this will be welcomed
> 
> Rusi
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