What kind of projects and applications are you focused on? In my
experience, the difficulty in learning—and teaching—"advanced" Haskell
topics is less in the topic itself and more in the level of abstraction
involved. I know that I struggled with GADTs and even existential types not
because of the features themselves but because I had real trouble putting
the features into context and understanding how I would use them. Just
*why* are those abstractions in particular interesting?
I can recommend some of my personal favorite topics like streaming
libraries, FRP, automatic differentiation and the probability monad, but
whether that recommendation makes sense depends on how you want to use
those topics. Alternatively, if you have some specific things you would
want to build with the class, we could suggest topics that fit those goals.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 19:22 Jacques Carette
I will be teaching a second Haskell course next semester. Let's assume that
Introducing functional programming
Getting started with Haskell and GHCi
Basic types and definitions
Designing and writing programs
Data types, tuples and lists
Programming with lists
Defining functions over lists
Playing the game: I/O in Haskell
Reasoning about programs
Generalization: patterns of computation
Higher-order functions
Developing higher-order programs
Overloading, type classes and type checking
Algebraic types
(i.e. the first chapters of Thompson's Haskell: the Craft of Functional Programming book is "beginner, classic Haskell". The next few chapters, namely
Abstract data types
Lazy programming
Programming with monads
Domain-Specific Languages
Time and space behaviour
would be (re)done at the start of such a second course. The question for cafe is: what else? I will likely cover: - Typeclassopedia - finally tagless - Template Haskell - Optics - GADTs - recursion schemes
I should probably cover parser combinators, pretty-printing, cabal&stack. I know that http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/ gives me one heck of a smorgasbord of options, which is kind of a problem.
Things I know I will not cover: - dependent types (if I was going to do that, I'd switch to Idris/Agda) - concurrency (don't ask)
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