I started reading LYAH, and found it interesting but slow. I wasn't patient enough to get through more than the first half of the book. Then I found "Write Your

I started reading LYAH, and found it interesting but slow. I wasn't patient enough to get through more than the first half of the book. Then I found "Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours"[1], which was much more interesting. I just jumped into that and wrote a simple Scheme interpreter which then morphed into an interpreter for my own language. [1]: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H... Basically, I learned enough to become comfortable with Haskell through that little project. After that, I got better by working on more projects in Haskell, doing more reading and answering StackOverflow questions.