Chris Smith schrieb:
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 11:44 -0600, aditya siram wrote:
I was a little negative in my last message so maybe I can contribute something positive. If you're looking for a musical way to teach Haskell I did a Haskell music hackathon [1] about a year and a half ago. The idea was to use Haskell [2] to play music through a Supercollider music server [3] .
Well, it seems like music is a good possibility for part of it. We're talking about a weekly class for a year, so it'll go beyond that. I'm sure that whatever I do, I won't be able to prevent it ending with the programming of video games!
I did look at Haskore, and there's a lot to like about it; but also a lot to worry about. The documentation talks about it only being able to do synthesis on Linux (but that documentation seems to be old; I wonder if this is still true); it definitely suffers from "wall of modules" syndrome -- there's no obvious top-level module with a simplified interface that I can see... no starting point or anything beyond type signatures, a lot of abstraction, and the apparent existence of many different types all called named with a capital T. Maybe, though, I can wrap it in something more simple and usable.
Sorry for not-up-to-date documentation. I think that looking at the various examples is most helpful for a start. I can't provide a link to code.haskell.org since it is down. But there is an Example directory. And maybe: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskore