On 9/25/07, Philippa Cowderoy
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Seth Gordon wrote:
Are Benjamin C. Pierce's _Types and Programming Languages_ and/or _Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists_ suitable for self-study?
Basic Category Theory depends on your mindset somewhat. TaPL is great though, and frequently recommended. The follow-up is also good.
Basic Category Theory is cute, but I think the exercises are sometimes phrased strangely. In some ways, the book makes more sense if you've already seen these ideas once & are trying to get a more CS perspective of the math. I'll probably be alone in this, but I think Mac Lane is a fantastic book for learning category theory. It's hard, but if you trudge along and do the exercises you learn quite a bit. It's fun!