[Nottingham] putStrLn "Haskell Help"

Rory Holland rory at linux.com
Tue May 10 12:28:39 UTC 2011


Here you go:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/315875/Haskell.odp

On 10 May 2011 13:15, Rory Holland <rory at linux.com> wrote:
> I'll make some corrections to them and reply here in a couple of mins.
>
> On 10 May 2011 13:12, Eben Till <ctrl.alt.nerd at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I spent until 5AM playing vidya games. It took several strong coffees to
>> even begin to interface with life. I will nod solemnly and pretend I grasped
>> what you meant ;) cheers! I feel like putting a project or something
>> together so I need all the help I can get. I'll need something to show when
>> I'm back groveling to uni's this summer. You don't still have those slides
>> do you?
>>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Rory Holland <rory at linux.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> No, it walks you through from first principles.
>>> It isn't however "Haskell for dummies". It isn't patronising and
>>> assumes you are reasonably intelligent, but doesn't assume any
>>> knowledge (there's a world of difference)
>>>
>>> On 10 May 2011 12:47, Eben Till <ctrl.alt.nerd at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> > As soon as payday shifts it's butt and gets here I'll buy it, will it
>>> > still
>>> > make sense and be as good to someone who has no previous experience in
>>> > functional programming? A lot of books and such seem to expect you to
>>> > know
>>> > already what everything is doing.
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Rory Holland <rory at linux.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> At the end of my talk, I recommended Graham Hutton's excellent book,
>>> >> "Programming in haskell"
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Haskell-Graham-Hutton/dp/0521692695/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305027614&sr=1-1
>>> >> It's £20 or so, but it's worth every penny.
>>> >>
>>> >> On 10 May 2011 12:36, Eben Till <ctrl.alt.nerd at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> >> > Last week really helped clear up some things about Haskell,
>>> >> > unfortunately,
>>> >> > my brain is like a colander and unless I write a small rain forest
>>> >> > worth
>>> >> > of
>>> >> > notes I forget everything.
>>> >> > Does anyone know of any good Haskell resources for learning? I've
>>> >> > been
>>> >> > using
>>> >> > http://learnyouahaskell.com/ it's great but at times it's not very
>>> >> > verbose.
>>> >> > Thanks!
>>> >> > ~Eben
>>> >> >
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