Chad Wilson wrote:
Have any of you fellow n00bs ordered a book on Haskell? Or are you just using the haskell.org web site? I think I need to get me a book to keep as a reference.
I've a few. Introduction to Functional Programming Systems Using Haskell ISBN-10: 0521277248 Programming in Haskell ISBN-10: 0521692695 The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia ISBN-10: 0521644089 I find the first to be about the best of the three. I thought the The School of Expression did a poor job of explaining how to actually edit and run code; the layout and typography does not make it clear enough to me when something is meant as an abstract code snippet, and when it's code you could (or should) plausibly run. I really liked "Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours" if only because it shows how to edit and run actual code right for the start, and code that will read and write to and from the command line. (Seems many tutorials and books spend forever explaining types and and other abstractions while not giving test code to run and poke and break and fix. ) I learn best when I have sample code I can experiment with; it makes the understanding and application of the abstractions easier to grasp and apply. http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~jdtang/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overview.html And from what I've read of Real World Haskell it looks like it should be quite good http://book.realworldhaskell.org.nyud.net/beta/ James