The tutorial has now been updated to what I think will more or less be the final version. There are now figures where appropriate. The code has been checked, and I'm sure now that the examples work. Now that I'm done, I'll repeat the original announcement, and all can enjoy: This is the tutorial I'll be presenting at DEFUN 2008. I'll be building a site around it until then, complete with compilable code examples, but I thought I would let everyone get a sneak peek at the long version of the tutorial before I'm done with it. The code is as yet untested, and keep in mind, advanced Haskellers, that I'm purposefully simplifying some things to be understood by the beginner to the intermediate Haskeller. Comments and questions are welcome and encouraged. The link is: http://bluheron.europa.renci.org/docs/BeautifulCode.pdf On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Don Stewart wrote:

jefferson.r.heard:

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This is the tutorial I'll be presenting at DEFUN 2008. I'll be building a site around it until then, complete with compilable code examples, but I thought I would let everyone get a sneak peek at the long version of the tutorial before I'm done with it. The code is as yet untested, and keep in mind, advanced Haskellers, that I'm purposefully simplifying some things to be understood by the beginner to the intermediate Haskeller. Comments and questions are welcome and encouraged. Please do ignore typos in the inline code for now, though, as I'll be spending this week testing it out and making sure everything works.

The link is:

http://bluheron.europa.renci.org/docs/BeautifulCode.pdf

This is a beautiful piece of work, Jefferson!

And maybe a nice time to mention that Jefferson will be presenting, along with some other leading lights in the community, at DEFUN, our first developer-oriented workshop at ICFP.

http://www.deinprogramm.de/defun-2008/

So if the ICFP theory-heavy schedule seems a bit dry to you, consider registering for the DEFUN tutorials, and come away having built some beautiful code in Haskell.

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I know someone else is going to say it, so I may as well beat them to the punch: Real World Haskell isn't released yet, but beta chapters are available online at book.realworldhaskell.org/beta As for me, I learned though the Yet Another Haskell tutorial, Haskell School of Expression (book), Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (book), and plenty of playing around. Tom On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 11:29 -0700, Warren Aldred wrote:

Hi all,

I'm new to Haskell and looking for recommendations on introductory Haskell books. Online or offline. Any suggestions?

Thanks kindly, Warren

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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Benjamin L. Russell

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On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:29:46 -0700, "Warren Aldred" wrote:

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Hi all,

I'm new to Haskell and looking for recommendations on introductory Haskell books. Online or offline. Any suggestions?

Another suggestion is _The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths, and Programming,_ by Kees Doets and Jan van Eijck (see http://fldit-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~peter/PS07/HR.pdfhttp://fldit-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/%7Epeter/PS07/HR.pdf). This book assumes very little mathematical background, is written in a "literate programming" style, and is very easy to follow.

In general, I would recommend focusing on the books, and not too much on most of the tutorials. Some other readers have said that many Haskell tutorials try to cover too many topics in too short a tutorial, and wind up not discussing the material adequately. Haskell has a very sharp learning curve, and it is essential to cover the basics adequately before diving into deeper material.

Depending, of course, on your learning style. I was never very good at the "dependency-driven" learning style; I have found it easier for me to learn what I'm interested in. If I don't have the background to understand it yet, then I'll half-understand it. And gradually everything starts coming together. To each his own, YMMV, et cetera. Luke