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Roelof Wobben

27 Jun 2011 27 Jun '11

8:25 a.m.

Hello, What's a good book for a absolute beginner in Haskell programming with a lot of exercises so I can see if I understand it. Roelof

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Raphael Päbst

27 Jun 27 Jun

9:21 a.m.

I used Real World Haskell Http:/book.realworldhaskell.org and was very happy with it. There's also Learn You A Haskell For Great Good http://www.learnyouahaskell.com which is probably funnier, but I can't tell you much more about it. For both it is helpful to have some experience with programming in genereal, but these are the first that came to mind. Raf On 6/27/11, Roelof Wobben wrote:

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Hello, What's a good book for a absolute beginner in Haskell programming with a lot of exercises so I can see if I understand it. Roelof

Roelof Wobben

9:34 a.m.

Hello, First thanks for the help. I looked at both books. book.realworld.haskelll : Nice book with exercises but you need some functions to solve the exercises which are not mentioned in the book. So there it will be very confusing. learnyouahaskell : Also a nice book but without any exercices and in the first chapter a confusing part about list compreshenion. Roelof

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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:21:37 +0200 Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] book question From: raphael.paebst@googlemail.com To: rwobben@hotmail.com CC: beginners@haskell.org

I used Real World Haskell Http:/book.realworldhaskell.org and was very happy with it. There's also Learn You A Haskell For Great Good http://www.learnyouahaskell.com which is probably funnier, but I can't tell you much more about it. For both it is helpful to have some experience with programming in genereal, but these are the first that came to mind.

Raf

On 6/27/11, Roelof Wobben wrote:

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Hello, What's a good book for a absolute beginner in Haskell programming with a lot of exercises so I can see if I understand it. Roelof

Tom Murphy

28 Jun 28 Jun

6:28 p.m.

On 6/27/11, Roelof Wobben wrote: [...]

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book.realworld.haskelll :

Nice book with exercises but you need some functions to solve the exercises which are not mentioned in the book. So there it will be very confusing.

Hi Roelof, It might seem like that - because RWH is a big book, and the functions may be hidden in an earlier section - but RWH is a beginner's book, which assumes no previous knowledge of Haskell. If you're looking to learn through exercises alone, though, I'd recommend Learn You A Haskell. In my experience, you can learn a lot just by doing the exercises and completely ignoring the explanations. Tom

Michael Orlitzky

6:35 p.m.

On 06/28/11 14:28, Tom Murphy wrote:

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On 6/27/11, Roelof Wobben wrote: [...]

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book.realworld.haskelll :

Nice book with exercises but you need some functions to solve the exercises which are not mentioned in the book. So there it will be very confusing.

Hi Roelof, It might seem like that - because RWH is a big book, and the functions may be hidden in an earlier section - but RWH is a beginner's book, which assumes no previous knowledge of Haskell.

As a Haskell beginner, I will suggest that a less true statement has never been made.

Tom Murphy

7:21 p.m.

On 6/28/11, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

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On 06/28/11 14:28, Tom Murphy wrote:

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On 6/27/11, Roelof Wobben wrote: [...]

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book.realworld.haskelll :

Nice book with exercises but you need some functions to solve the exercises which are not mentioned in the book. So there it will be very confusing.

Hi Roelof, It might seem like that - because RWH is a big book, and the functions may be hidden in an earlier section - but RWH is a beginner's book, which assumes no previous knowledge of Haskell.

As a Haskell beginner, I will suggest that a less true statement has never been made.

Really? I was saying that from experience, having started on Haskell with RWH. What types of things are assumed knowledge? (I have experience in programming imperative languages, though, so maybe that helped me) Tom

Mike Meyer

27 Jun 27 Jun

4:46 p.m.

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:21:37 +0200 Raphael Päbst wrote:

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I used Real World Haskell Http:/book.realworldhaskell.org and was very happy with it. There's also Learn You A Haskell For Great Good http://www.learnyouahaskell.com which is probably funnier, but I can't tell you much more about it. For both it is helpful to have some experience with programming in genereal, but these are the first that came to mind.

The online version of Real World Haskell has a comments facility, which people use to post solutions and discussions of the problems in the book. I've found those to be invaluable. On the other hand, the examples in the that book are apparently executed when rendered (which is sorta cool), and some of them no longer work because of changes in the haskell environment they are run in. So you get error messages instead of example output. http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Lalitha Prasad K

9:59 a.m.

For exercises you can look at 99 Haskell problems at the following link http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/99_Haskell_exercises Solutions are also available, but you should first try with out looking at the solutions Lalitha Prasad On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:

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Hello,

What's a good book for a absolute beginner in Haskell programming with a lot of exercises so I can see if I understand it.

Roelof

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