Re: [Haskell-beginners] Resources to learn functional programming

The books mentioned are great, but the resource that finally made the concept of higher order functions concrete for me years ago was Joel Spolsky's article on MapReduce "Can Your Programming Language Do This?" (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html). The examples are in Javascript, but that might mean you have less syntax to worry about. Lorcan On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:38 PM, David Hinkes wrote:

I started with these two resources. I'd suggest beginning with "Learn You a Haskell (for great good)." It's really great.

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Tim Perry wrote:

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I think that you should work your way through "Real World Haskell" which is available free online. I thought it was worth-while enough that I bought the book and I regularly refer to it. http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

Learn you a Haskell for Great Good is also a worth-while book. http://learnyouahaskell.com/

Good luck, Tim

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Homero Cardoso de Almeida wrote:

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Hi everyone,

I'm fairly new to Haskell. I'm trying to learn it, but got stuck when i reached high-order functions. I understand what they are, but I cannot wrap my head on how they work, how to use them, and such. It seems so abstract to me. I tried to move on past it, but it only got harder and harder.

Looks like I have problems learning functional programming. Do you have any good resources to learn functional programming? I am a decent C++ programmer.

Thanks. Homero Cardoso de Almeida _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

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