About my commitment to my passions, Haskell and the world
Hi everybody, I have a very important announcement. I’ve decided to dedicate the next big part of my life to improve the world through Haskell. And you can help! (I’m not asking for money…) I plan to go to live at a “poor” village where my grandparents live. Poor because it is very hard to get a higher education. My grandfather founded some time ago some schools nearby the village, but if people wanted to have a bright future, they had to leave the village. My father moved to the nearest capital city. The story repeated. My father and my mother (together with other people) founded a school at the city where I was born. I left this city to get an even higher education at one of the best universities of my continent. At college, I got the opportunity to study a year as an exchange student at one of the best CS universities in the world. Knowing that probably I would never be able to study at such a good university again, I took the hardest subjects I could. The first semester, I took 2 undergrad courses an 2 grad courses (Program Transformations, Software Design, etc…) This first semester was hard, but at the end I got ok grades, so I thought that maybe I could give a little bit more. For the next semester, I tried to encode the knowledge I acquired as clearly as I could. Very quickly, I got more interested in how to model this knowledge more than the knowledge itself. When I failed with Java, I turned to Haskell and so it begun. I did enjoy my time also. I got to see the inauguration of the Gates Computer Science Building, I found the time to play the piano and learned how to drive the bike without hands very well. When I returned, my parents kindly forced me to finish colleague. When I graduated, I got a scholarship for grad school (that I took, but I left 3 months later) and a job making iOS and Android apps. I couldn’t use Haskell but I did work some months with F#. Now that I’ve seen the world, the good, the bad and the ugly things, Now that I’ve tasted the impoverishing money and repented, Now I’m ready, I flipped the arrows. The hardest thing so far has been to finish my NDA… I’m still on it… It looks like the story will repeat once more. I want to retreat my self and found a next generation school where my grandparents live. I believe that we need to create high performant Haskellers and that we owe to teach children as young and fast as they can happily take it. I would appreciate encouragement, tutorials for all ages and levels of math encoded in Haskell, advice, anything good. I’m already burning bridges! I’ll keep reporting.
A tutorial about haskell tutorials:
https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell
On 17 June 2015 at 07:19, Jesus Gonzalez
Hi everybody, I have a very important announcement.
I’ve decided to dedicate the next big part of my life to improve the world through Haskell. And you can help! (I’m not asking for money…)
I plan to go to live at a “poor” village where my grandparents live. Poor because it is very hard to get a higher education. My grandfather founded some time ago some schools nearby the village, but if people wanted to have a bright future, they had to leave the village. My father moved to the nearest capital city.
The story repeated. My father and my mother (together with other people) founded a school at the city where I was born. I left this city to get an even higher education at one of the best universities of my continent.
At college, I got the opportunity to study a year as an exchange student at one of the best CS universities in the world. Knowing that probably I would never be able to study at such a good university again, I took the hardest subjects I could. The first semester, I took 2 undergrad courses an 2 grad courses (Program Transformations, Software Design, etc…) This first semester was hard, but at the end I got ok grades, so I thought that maybe I could give a little bit more. For the next semester, I tried to encode the knowledge I acquired as clearly as I could. Very quickly, I got more interested in how to model this knowledge more than the knowledge itself. When I failed with Java, I turned to Haskell and so it begun.
I did enjoy my time also. I got to see the inauguration of the Gates Computer Science Building, I found the time to play the piano and learned how to drive the bike without hands very well.
When I returned, my parents kindly forced me to finish colleague. When I graduated, I got a scholarship for grad school (that I took, but I left 3 months later) and a job making iOS and Android apps. I couldn’t use Haskell but I did work some months with F#.
Now that I’ve seen the world, the good, the bad and the ugly things, Now that I’ve tasted the impoverishing money and repented, Now I’m ready, I flipped the arrows.
The hardest thing so far has been to finish my NDA… I’m still on it…
It looks like the story will repeat once more. I want to retreat my self and found a next generation school where my grandparents live. I believe that we need to create high performant Haskellers and that we owe to teach children as young and fast as they can happily take it.
*I would appreciate encouragement, tutorials for all ages and levels of math encoded in Haskell, advice, anything good.*
I’m already burning bridges! I’ll keep reporting.
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 03:49:35 +0200, Jesus Gonzalez
Hi everybody, I have a very important announcement.
I’ve decided to dedicate the next big part of my life to improve the world through Haskell. And you can help! (I’m not asking for money…) : I would appreciate encouragement, tutorials for all ages and levels of math encoded in Haskell, advice, anything good. :
You surely are ambitious; I wish you success. There are many online resources, like tutorials[0], books[1] and at least one MOOC[2]. While I think that tutorials are not suitable for formal education, they might be of some inspiration to someone creating a course. An interesting web page about teaching materials is "The problem of learning functional programming"[3] Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl [0] https://wiki.haskell.org/Tutorials [1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Books [2] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programming-delftx-fp101x [3] http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-12-31-functional-education.html -- Folding@home What if you could share your unused computer power to help find a cure? In just 5 minutes you can join the world's biggest networked computer and get us closer sooner. Watch the video. http://folding.stanford.edu/ http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html Haskell programming --
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 17/06/15 03:49, Jesus Gonzalez wrote:
I would appreciate encouragement, tutorials for all ages and levels of math encoded in Haskell, advice, anything good. I don't have much to offer at the moment, but I'd like to say that what you're trying to do is awesome, and that I wish you the best. I hope you will keep us up to date on this list. A blog would be nice.
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participants (4)
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Alexander Berntsen -
Henk-Jan van Tuyl -
Jesus Gonzalez -
Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT (BHU)