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The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia (Paperback)

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Paperback: 382 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (28 Feb 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0521644089
ISBN-13: 978-0521644082
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.5 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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‘… a rather unusual and very interesting book for the functional programming community. The author’s style is wonderful, and he is good at explaining the material … unique in the field of functional programming’. M. Ivanovi´c, Artificial Intelligence

‘… a novel and intuitively appealing approach to teaching functional programming … could profitably be used for an advanced undergraduate course focusing on domain-specific languages in this area.’ Journal of Functional Programming

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Functional programming is a style of programming that emphasizes the use of functions (in contrast to object-oriented programming, which emphasizes the use of objects). It has become popular in recent years because of its simplicity, conciseness, and clarity. This book teaches functional programming as a way of thinking and problem solving, using Haskell, the most popular purely functional language. Rather than using the conventional (boring) mathematical examples commonly found in other programming language textbooks, the author uses examples drawn from multimedia applications, including graphics, animation, and computer music, thus rewarding the reader with working programs for inherently more interesting applications. Aimed at both beginning and advanced programmers, this tutorial begins with a gentle introduction to functional programming and moves rapidly on to more advanced topics. Details about progamming in Haskell are presented in boxes throughout the text so they can be easily found and referred to.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A brave effort to make Haskell worth learning, 30 May 2005

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The Haskell School of Expression shows you how to make interesting applications in Haskell.

Unlike the other Haskell books this one tries to avoid mathematical oriented programs as examples. Instead it gets you writing programs using the haskell graphics and music libraries which are much more interesting.

Frivolous things like that can sometimes over-complicate simple ideas which are trying to be conveyed though. Also the first chapter is very ambitious introducting lots of new ideas which are not easy to link together. Lots of proof techniques are used throughout which may be hard to understand at first.

On the whole the text is fascinating as it shows what a novel and ideal approach functional programming is for making graphics applications.

Very good content, but I'm not sure if it should be your first read if you are new to functional programming.

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3.0 out of 5 stars An interesting approach, 17 Jul 2001

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This book provides an interesting approach to learning Haskell which is designed to keep the learner interested through the use of multimedia. Although I feel that sometimes this can cloud the simple principles being taught.

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