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Any resources on where to go to learn these topics?

buffyoda 10y ago
HaskellBook.com will teach you quite a number of them. :) The Reddits for the different functional programming languages are a good place to hangout (and a frequent source of blogs and videos on these topics), and for FP in non-FP languages, there are good Github communities (e.g. http://github.com/fantasyland/ http://github.com/fantasyland/, no association with FIOL). I'd also humbly suggest that LambdaConf 2017 (May 25-27) is a great place to learn more about functional programming. There will be a special two-day LambdaConf workshop prior to the conference that introduces the basics of functional programming (no background knowledge), another that is aimed at a slightly more experience audience, and then at the subsequent conference, plenty of workshops and sessions to learn many of these topics (and others). It's a journey, but everyone can get there if they have the interest. Most of the resources out there (blogs, videos, even e-books) are free, and the remainder are low-cost if you are already working in tech. Good luck and please just let any of us lurker functional programmers know if you need a hand. :)
- bogomipz 10y ago
  Is there anywhere to preview some content from HaskellBook.com ? Its a little pricey for to just take a chance without seeing any same content. The TOC looks good but that's not much indication of writing style.
  - leoc 10y ago
    There's a sample excerpt containing a few chapters: http://haskellbook.com/assets/img/sample.pdf http://haskellbook.com/assets/img/sample.pdf .
  - endgame 10y ago
    It is pricey, but it is also very good. The content is quite up-to-date (e.g. covers Foldable/Traversable, teaches the Functor-Applicative-Monad progression) and working through the exercises made a lot of things click that I didn't understand before.
t-ob 10y ago
Not an exhaustive list, but the best resource I've come across for a number of these topics is this course http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html It's terse but comprehensive, and the exercises have been a pleasant source of a-ha moments. There's a more recent version of the course offered, but I haven't been through it.

HaskellBook.com will teach you quite a number of them. :) The Reddits for the different functional programming languages are a good place to hangout (and a frequent source of blogs and videos on these topics), and for FP in non-FP languages, there are good Github communities (e.g. http://github.com/fantasyland/ http://github.com/fantasyland/, no association with FIOL). I'd also humbly suggest that LambdaConf 2017 (May 25-27) is a great place to learn more about functional programming. There will be a special two-day LambdaConf workshop prior to the conference that introduces the basics of functional programming (no background knowledge), another that is aimed at a slightly more experience audience, and then at the subsequent conference, plenty of workshops and sessions to learn many of these topics (and others). It's a journey, but everyone can get there if they have the interest. Most of the resources out there (blogs, videos, even e-books) are free, and the remainder are low-cost if you are already working in tech. Good luck and please just let any of us lurker functional programmers know if you need a hand. :)

bogomipz 10y ago
Is there anywhere to preview some content from HaskellBook.com ? Its a little pricey for to just take a chance without seeing any same content. The TOC looks good but that's not much indication of writing style.
- leoc 10y ago
  There's a sample excerpt containing a few chapters: http://haskellbook.com/assets/img/sample.pdf http://haskellbook.com/assets/img/sample.pdf .
- endgame 10y ago
  It is pricey, but it is also very good. The content is quite up-to-date (e.g. covers Foldable/Traversable, teaches the Functor-Applicative-Monad progression) and working through the exercises made a lot of things click that I didn't understand before.

t-ob 10y ago

Not an exhaustive list, but the best resource I've come across for a number of these topics is this course http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html It's terse but comprehensive, and the exercises have been a pleasant source of a-ha moments. There's a more recent version of the course offered, but I haven't been through it.