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'The best introduction to Haskell available. There are many paths towards becoming comfortable and competent with the language but I think studying this book is the quickest path. I urge readers of this magazine to recommend Programming in Haskell to anyone who has been thinking about learning the language.' Duncan Coutts, Monad Reader
'Two groups of people must consider this book. The first is professors interested in rapidly introducing students to fundamental concepts in functional programming. This book, supplemented with online resources and professorial guidance could easily serve as the textbook for a semester-long course on functional programming. The second group is programmers interested in surveying the functional paradigm as quickly as possible.' Journal of Functional Programming
'Two groups of people must consider this book. The first is professors interested in rapidly introducing students to fundamental concepts in functional programming. This book, supplemented with online resources and professorial guidance could easily serve as the textbook for a semester-long course on functional programming. The second group is programmers interested in surveying the functional paradigm as quickly as possible.' Journal of Functional Programming
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Haskell is one of the leading languages for teaching functional programming, enabling students to write simpler and cleaner code, and to learn how to structure and reason about programs. This introduction is ideal for beginners: it requires no previous programming experience and all concepts are explained from first principles via carefully chosen examples. Each chapter includes exercises that range from the straightforward to extended projects, plus suggestions for further reading on more advanced topics. The author is a leading Haskell researcher and instructor, well-known for his teaching skills. The presentation is clear and simple, and benefits from having been refined and class-tested over several years. The result is a text that can be used with courses, or for self-learning. Features include freely accessible Powerpoint slides for each chapter, solutions to exercises and examination questions (with solutions) available to instructors, and a downloadable code that's fully compliant with the latest Haskell release.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book since it was recommended by the course instructor (the course was not a basic intro course, lecture 2 delved straight into monads, and lecture 3 was higher order monads.) I myself have some prior experience with Standard ML, and I don't feel like a stranger to functional programming in general. The result was that I ended up blowing through nearly half the book in one sitting (a few hours.)
While it does explain some of the syntactical oddities of Haskell I haven't seen elsewhere (guards, list comprehensions, etc), these are fairly simple things. Halfway through, he starts with a parser example (using monads), but since he doesn't really explain the why and how for the rather strained construction, I feel the point is somewhat lost. Sadly, monads aren't really delved into.
If you have any basic knowledge of functional programming (esp of the SML style), I'd recommend you move along to a move advanced book. But for the simple stuff, the author explains everything well.
While it does explain some of the syntactical oddities of Haskell I haven't seen elsewhere (guards, list comprehensions, etc), these are fairly simple things. Halfway through, he starts with a parser example (using monads), but since he doesn't really explain the why and how for the rather strained construction, I feel the point is somewhat lost. Sadly, monads aren't really delved into.
If you have any basic knowledge of functional programming (esp of the SML style), I'd recommend you move along to a move advanced book. But for the simple stuff, the author explains everything well.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a very good introduction to Haskell. It is both clear and concise.
The organisation of the book is excellent, from rudimentary basics through to simple examples.
It is hard to fault this book.
Trying to learn Haskell, I think this book together with 'Real World Haskell' by Bryan O'Sullican et al. would be ideal.
In a future version it would be great to see some 'real world' examples within this book.
The best 'first book' on Haskell I've come across. An excellent way to very quickly pick up the basics.
The organisation of the book is excellent, from rudimentary basics through to simple examples.
It is hard to fault this book.
Trying to learn Haskell, I think this book together with 'Real World Haskell' by Bryan O'Sullican et al. would be ideal.
In a future version it would be great to see some 'real world' examples within this book.
The best 'first book' on Haskell I've come across. An excellent way to very quickly pick up the basics.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The material is very well written, concise and easy to understand. I'd recommend this text to anyone starting out with Haskell. The only issue being that this book is really only an introduction. It leaves the reader with a great idea about the basic concepts of Haskell, but it doesn't elaborate on real world Haskell; programming with effects, concurrency, networking etc.
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Not bad, but could be better.
A pretty good book overall. Well structured and easy to follow chapters. The book is an introduction to Haskell. If you are a beginner or a student then the book is for you. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ant123
It might be ok if you're a student, but...
of little use if you're a professional, like me, who wants to really get down to using the language. There are several problems with the book:
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Published on 11 Sep 2008 by Iain Speed
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