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Bartosz Milewski's lectures on category theory are great. Also, the accompanying book is well written (and free)! lectures -> https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBa
by xyzal 6y ago
Bartosz Milewski's lectures on category theory are great. Also, the accompanying book is well written (and free)!
lectures -> https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz
book -> https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf
- iambrj 6y agoAnother good category theory read is Pierce's Category Theory for Computer Scientists
- spekcular 6y agoWhat practical applications does it present for programmers? I've looked at this a bit and it just seems like a regular category theory book.
- Koshkin 6y agoSometimes it is helpful to really understand what the hell you are actually doing when you write code (design patterns, data types and all). Otherwise, not much (unless you write Haskell, that is.)
- wfdctrl 6y agoYou don't get scared when you read stuff about Haskell because you know what most the fancy words mean
- Koshkin 6y agoOn the other hand it would be easier to just avoid Haskell.