Which advanced Haskell topics interest you - Haskell-Cafe - Haskell.org

newer
Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE:...

Which advanced Haskell topics interest you

older
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Creating Repa...

Manuel M T Chakravarty

4 Oct 2012 4 Oct '12

10:43 a.m.

Most existing Haskell books and similar teaching material is aimed at programmers who are new to Haskell. This survey is to assess the community interest in teaching material covering advanced topics beyond the commonly taught introductory material. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE1QZFNRLTFMdkllYWIyR2F... Manuel

Reply

Sign in to reply online Use email software

Show replies by date

Kim-Ee Yeoh

4 Oct 4 Oct

1:04 p.m.

Something to consider is that it's not so much whether the material is basic, advanced, or intermediate; it's that the way it's being presented is boring and ineffective. Take the Head First Java book, which was deliberately engineered to overcome precisely this hitherto neglected aspect of technical teaching. There's a lot we can learn from how that book was put together because it's done wonders for onboarding java developers. A summary of what makes the book different: http://books.google.com/books?id=lXEBwv0LYogC&pg=PR22&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3 -- Kim-Ee On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty

wrote:

Most existing Haskell books and similar teaching material is aimed at programmers who are new to Haskell. This survey is to assess the community interest in teaching material covering advanced topics beyond the commonly taught introductory material.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE1QZFNRLTFMdkllYWIyR2F...

Manuel

_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Reply

Sign in to reply online Use email software

Stephen Tetley

1:21 p.m.

On 4 October 2012 18:04, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote:

Something to consider is that it's not so much whether the material is basic, advanced, or intermediate; it's that the way it's being presented is boring and ineffective.

I'd suggest there is enough range in the Haskell books now available, that for most tastes, there's a beginners to intermediate book already a given learner wouldn't consider boring. Of course different learners will like different ones... As for an advanced book, maybe limiting the subject to one domain ("concurrency" / "DSLs for graphics" / pick a favourite ...) might make a better book than one targeting a mix of advanced topics.

Reply

Sign in to reply online Use email software

Vo Minh Thu

1:44 p.m.

2012/10/4 Stephen Tetley :

On 4 October 2012 18:04, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote:

...
Something to consider is that it's not so much whether the material is basic, advanced, or intermediate; it's that the way it's being presented is boring and ineffective.

I'd suggest there is enough range in the Haskell books now available, that for most tastes, there's a beginners to intermediate book already a given learner wouldn't consider boring. Of course different learners will like different ones...

As for an advanced book, maybe limiting the subject to one domain ("concurrency" / "DSLs for graphics" / pick a favourite ...) might make a better book than one targeting a mix of advanced topics.

PBRT (http://pbrt.org/) in Haskell would be awesome :)

Reply

Sign in to reply online Use email software

Kristopher Micinski

3:20 p.m.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Stephen Tetley wrote:

On 4 October 2012 18:04, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote:

...
Something to consider is that it's not so much whether the material is basic, advanced, or intermediate; it's that the way it's being presented is boring and ineffective.

I'd suggest there is enough range in the Haskell books now available, that for most tastes, there's a beginners to intermediate book already a given learner wouldn't consider boring. Of course different learners will like different ones...

As for an advanced book, maybe limiting the subject to one domain ("concurrency" / "DSLs for graphics" / pick a favourite ...) might make a better book than one targeting a mix of advanced topics.

Another problem is that the topics in these domains don't simply deal with Haskell, they deal with real computer science that is not to be understated. Concurrency for Haskell involves tackling the real implementation issues inherent in making things work, but also a good taste of semantics, and actual concurrency. If you're approaching this from an outsider's perspective (never taken a class in concurrency, never heard of process algebra, etc..) the topic will be more difficult than if you're "in the know" and want a survey of topics as they are implemented in Haskell. As far as "functional data structures" go, we already have an excellent book, though it of course could use updating, along with real world Haskell like treatment, but the core "thinking" is there. kris

Reply

Sign in to reply online Use email software

Manuel M T Chakravarty

11:01 p.m.

Kristopher Micinski :

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Stephen Tetley wrote:

...
As for an advanced book, maybe limiting the subject to one domain ("concurrency" / "DSLs for graphics" / pick a favourite ...) might make a better book than one targeting a mix of advanced topics.

Another problem is that the topics in these domains don't simply deal with Haskell, they deal with real computer science that is not to be understated.

Concurrency for Haskell involves tackling the real implementation issues inherent in making things work, but also a good taste of semantics, and actual concurrency.

Those are very good points. Thanks, Manuel

Reply

Sign in to reply online Use email software

4614

Age (days ago)

4615

Last active (days ago)

Download

5 comments

5 participants

tags

participants (5)

Kim-Ee Yeoh
Kristopher Micinski
Manuel M T Chakravarty
Stephen Tetley
Vo Minh Thu