[Nottingham] putStrLn "Haskell Help"

[Rory Holland]

Also, here are some slides by Graham to accompany the book:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html#slides


On 10 May 2011 13:17, Rory Holland <rory at linux.com> wrote:
> 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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