Paul Hudak (paul.hudak@yale.edu) wrote:
I'm not sure how Simon Thompson feels, or other instructors using his or my book, but a downside of posting all of the solutions is that the problems cannot be assigned for homework.
That's true. Being a self-learner I forgot that your books are used as a textbooks.
I have many of the solutions to SOE problems, and could post them, but am wondering if it would be better to make them available only to instructors, or to those who might convince me that they are not reading the book for credit. Or is that being too draconian?
How to discern self-study from the university sudent? And this is maybe specific to Haskell-like community, i.e. for other programming languages there are so many books/materials/mailinglists/... so it is prety hard to give some specific homework expecting one cannot find an answer. At the same time, those who take adavantage of solutions (both students & self-study guys) won't benefit much from it - they have to pass the exam at the end or write some real code in a language :-) So, imho, solutions can be helpful for those who can take advantage of them. Let's hear what Simon Thompson thinks in regard. Sincerely, Gour -- Registered Linux User | #278493 GPG Public Key | 8C44EDCD