[OT] Teaching Haskell in High School (fwd)

[Rex Page]

This matches my experience, too. When I've taught Haskell to first
year college students, there have always been some hard core hackers
who've been at it in C or VB or Perl or something like that for
years, and they rarely take kindly to Haskell. The ones without any
programming background do better.

I think Haskell would be great for a high school math class. They
could learn some logic and induction along with it, and get a few
proofs back into the high school math curriculum.

Rex Page


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 03:03:03 +0100
From: Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@jeltsch.net>
To: The Haskell Mailing List <haskell@haskell.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Teaching Haskell in High School

On Tuesday, 2003-02-04, 01:01, CET, Hal Daume wrote:
> [...]

> However, I'm also well aware that Haskell is very difficult to learn (and,
> I'd imagine, to teach).

Hi,

I wouldn't claim that Haskell is very difficult to learn. I think, people 
often have problems with learning Haskell because they know imperative 
programming and try to apply their imperative thinking to programming in 
Haskell.

Some months ago, a first year student told me that she liked Haskell very much 
and that she didn't find it very difficult. I asked her if she had had 
experiences with other programming languages before learning Haskell. She 
answered: "No."

> [...]

Wolfgang
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