[Haskell-cafe] Teaching FP with Haskell

[Ben Doyle]

Helium seems interesting, but the code is a little stale, no? The last
updates seem to be from 2008-2009. I couldn't get it to build with ghc
7.6.3, not that I tried too terribly hard.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Andrew Butterfield <
Andrew.Butterfield at scss.tcd.ie> wrote:

> 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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