Name: Get Programming with Haskell
ISBN: 9781617293764

Get Programming with Haskell

Summary Get Programming with Haskell introduces you to the Haskell language without drowning you in academic jargon and heavy functional programming theory. By working through 43 easy-to-follow lessons, you'll learn Haskell the best possible way—by doing Haskell! Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Programming languages often differ only around the edges—a few keywords, libraries, or platform choices. Haskell gives you an entirely new point of view. To the software pioneer Alan Kay, a change in perspective can be worth 80 IQ points and Haskellers agree on the dramatic benefits of thinking the Haskell way—thinking functionally, with type safety, mathematical certainty, and more. In this hands-on book, that's exactly what you'll learn to do. About the Book Get Programming with Haskell leads you through short lessons, examples, and exercises designed to make Haskell your own. It has crystal-clear illustrations and guided practice. You will write and test dozens of interesting programs and dive into custom Haskell modules. You will gain a new perspective on programming plus the practical ability to use Haskell in the everyday world. (The 80 IQ points: not guaranteed.) What's Inside Thinking in Haskell Functional programming basics Programming in types Real-world applications for Haskell About the Reader Written for readers who know one or more programming languages.

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3D39739091Jul 2024

https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-haskell

Get Programming With Haskell by Will Kurt. Made up of small lessons that all build on top of each other and will really help you understand what's going on.

I wanted to like Effective Haskell but honestly didn't. YMMV.

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kleingeldAug 2022

Until recently, learning Haskell for solving "real-world" problems is not at all easy. But there are now a lot more resources that one can consult.

I think it is highly rewarding to learn to program in Haskell. It offers you another perspective of approaching a computational problem and has a great ecosystem for many applications. And if you ever want to get into theorem-proving with Coq or Agda, knowing Haskell is a huge bonus.

My suggested learning path is as follows: 1. Read Get Programming with Haskell and do the Haskell MOOC at https://haskell.mooc.fi/ at the same time. 2. Read sections in Haskell Programming from First Principles not covered in 1. 3. Read Haskell in Depth.

Many years ago, I tried to learn Haskell from Haskell Programming from First Principles but couldn't get to the point I could write meaningful applications. I gave up after about a year. Early this year, I completed the Haskell MOOC and read most of Haskell in Depth and now I have a much better command of the language. And doing exercises on CodeWars, Hackerrank, and Exercism really help.

I would advise ignoring both the glowing praises and scathing criticisms. Learn it well enough and form your own judgement, assuming of course that you have time to do so.

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crvdgcAug 2021

Specific to the "jargons" the author talked about. I find recent introduction level Haskell books actually do a surprisingly good job covering all the concepts the author mentioned. And they don't suffer from the online learning material problems.

The two books I read and can recommend are Programming Haskell by Graham Hutton & Get programming with Haskell by Will Kurt.

Another source that helped me a lot is the video series Category Theory by Bartosz Milewski [0]. It requires basically no background on category theory and defines all the concepts along the way. Bartosz also uses Haskell code as examples. You only need to know the syntax up to type class to understand.

As for the awful experience people get from learning Haskell, I think it depends a lot on people's expectations.

Most people only learn one language from school or early career, and then migrate their experience from one language to another. You don't learn the concept of "stack" twice, you only "learn" how to express them with a different syntax. So people can "learn" new languages with significantly lower effort than they learned the first language.

And when they find Haskell or other ML-family functional programming languages, they can't find the corresponding concepts in their known language. This time people actually need to learn new concepts as they learned their first language.

The experience is very similar to learning algorithms or OOP design patterns. And I don't think it's harder to learn Haskell up to the level mentioned by the author than e.g. reading the gang-of-four book.

[0]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI7FMa...

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VosporosDec 2019

I loved Get Programming with Haskell[0] and Finding Success and Failure in Haskell[1].

APress also published three books that I really liked: Practical Haskell[2];

Practical Concurrent Haskell[3];

and Practical Web Development in Haskell[4].

Have fun!

[0]: https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-haskell

[1]: http://www.lulu.com/shop/julie-moronuki-and-chris-martin/fin...

[2]: https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484244791

[3]: https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484227800

[4]: https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484237380

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olah_1Oct 2019

For me, Get Programming with Haskell by Will Kurt was much better than the 1300 page Haskell book. I loved it.

https://www.amazon.com/Get-Programming-Haskell-Will-Kurt/dp/...

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ex3xuAug 2019

Haskell. A couple very solid books for Haskell came out in 2019 -- Get Programming with Haskell by Will Kurt, and Practical Haskell by Alejandro Serrano Mena -- and I was lucky enough to find a Functional Programming Meetup group in my area with some guys who write Haskell code every day.

Currently falling, albeit very slowly, down the rabbit hole of FP -> category theory -> HoTT.

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