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I sincerely recommend against LYAH! It takes sooooooooo loooooong to get to the interesting bits that actually make Haskell worth learning an has so many try-to
by nnq 13y ago
I sincerely recommend against LYAH! It takes sooooooooo loooooong to get to the interesting bits that actually make Haskell worth learning an has so many try-to-be-funny examples that it makes you run away screaming... I tried going through it but it was literally oscillating between putting my mind to sleep and making wish to grab a chainsaw :) And the "humor" and "pretty pictures" don't help either... they were more like poignant guide to ruby, something that you either love or they annoy the hel out of you (this was for me), but either way they don't help the learning experience at all.
I suggest HFH ("Haskell Fast & Hard") as the introductory tutorial to start with instead. You can pick from 2 formats:
- http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way/ http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way... - static all-in-one-page format with pretty pictures
- https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pick-of-the-week/haskell-fast-hard https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pic... - split version, but with the ability to open snippets in their web based IDE
...after this, Real World Haskell is probably the next step: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ (I'm still at this step).
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- rando289 13y agoI accidentally upvoted you, but I disagree. LYAH is a great book to actually read through, and I enjoyed the humor. real world haskell introduces things without explaining and it's quite confusing and inconsistent.
- pestaa 13y agoWhy would downvote for disagreeing? GP is actually a well written comment, and very much deserves the upvote.
- virtualwhys 13y agoI concur, LYAH was, for me, not a terribly useful intro to Haskell. Running through some chapters of Real World Haskell online, however, is proving to be a bit of an eye opener ;-) Might just be that I could care less about hand drawn illustrations and the occassional somewhat humerous aside. YMMV, many seem to love LYAH.