Name: Beginning Haskell
ISBN: 9781430262503

Beginning Haskell

Beginning Haskell provides a broad-based introduction to the Haskell language, its libraries and environment, and to the functional programming paradigm that is fast growing in importance in the software industry. The book takes a project-based approach to learning the language that is unified around the building of a web-based storefront. Excellent coverage is given to the Haskell ecosystem and supporting tools. These include the Cabal build tool for managing projects and modules, the HUnit and QuickCheck tools for software testing, the Scotty framework for developing web applications, Persistent and Esqueleto for database access, and also parallel and distributed programming libraries. Functional programming is gathering momentum, allowing programmers to express themselves in a more concise way, reducing boilerplate and increasing the safety of code. Indeed, mainstream languages such as C# and Java are adopting features from functional programming, and from languages implementing that paradigm. Haskell is an elegant and noise-free pure functional language with a long history, having a huge number of library contributors and an active community. This makes Haskell the best tool for both learning and applying functional programming, and Beginning Haskell the perfect book to show off the language and what it can do. Takes you through a series of projects showing the different parts of the language.

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acconstaAug 2015

I've had some success with this, published last year:

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Haskell-A-Project-Based-Appr...

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mark_l_watsonJul 2015

That is a good summary of the options for Haskell web development. The author of this slide deck also wrote "Beginning Haskell." I bought this book and like it. That said I have an addiction to buying Haskell books :-) Personally, I use Yesod for complicated apps, otherwise Spock.

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psibiMay 2015

Note that this answer[1] documents parts of the book which has become outdated. That being said, it is a good book. I learned Haskell through it. A much more modern book on Haskell is Beginning Haskell by Alejandro which covers modern library although the book has some typos and publishing errors. I personally like Simon Thompson's Haskell book which focuses more on the fundamentals. The SOH site has various tutorials ranging from beginning to advanced. Although I would say that learning from book at the initial stages is a much better approach.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23727768/which-part-of-re...

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gtaniMay 2015

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Haskell-Project-Based-Approa...

Generally a good book, with some puzzling typos, IIRC (a year or so since i read it), he refers to Platform when he shd be referring to GHC

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there's also recent books by Richard Bird and Simon Thompson, and the Haskell School of Music, which was recently discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9487881

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Functionally-Haskell-Richard-...

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nutateMay 2014

I feel like the defunct PLEAC site page on Haskell sums up most autodidactic folks experience with Haskell: http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_haskell/index.html

Oh cool, you can do everything, right up to something useful. At which point you should use this library for side effects, no wait, this new library, oh wait, have you tried this new feature that's only in the latest GHCi and w/ the right Data import? ... eh, maybe I'll pass.

Still doesn't stop me from playing around now and thien. Right now the resources here: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/

and the new book Beginning Haskell, seem to be alright.

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jcurboApr 2014

I like Hutton's book, it seems simple and elegant without the flair of LYAH (which is good too, don't get me wrong). I picked up the newer Beginning Haskell and it seems decent as well; it has a lot of material akin to Real World Haskell.

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