This matches my experience, too. When I've taught Haskell to first year college students, there have always been some hard core hackers who've been at it in C or VB or Perl or something like that for years, and they rarely take kindly to Haskell. The ones without any programming background do better. I think Haskell would be great for a high school math class. They could learn some logic and induction along with it, and get a few proofs back into the high school math curriculum. Rex Page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 03:03:03 +0100 From: Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@jeltsch.net> To: The Haskell Mailing List <haskell@haskell.org> Subject: Re: [OT] Teaching Haskell in High School On Tuesday, 2003-02-04, 01:01, CET, Hal Daume wrote:
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However, I'm also well aware that Haskell is very difficult to learn (and, I'd imagine, to teach).
Hi, I wouldn't claim that Haskell is very difficult to learn. I think, people often have problems with learning Haskell because they know imperative programming and try to apply their imperative thinking to programming in Haskell. Some months ago, a first year student told me that she liked Haskell very much and that she didn't find it very difficult. I asked her if she had had experiences with other programming languages before learning Haskell. She answered: "No."
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