croyd

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   by croyd 12y ago

   There's no dependency between learning functional programming, including Haskell, and category theory. I say this as someone who is reading a CT book (Conceptual Mathematics) after being first exposed to the topic by learning Haskell.
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   Why OCaml, Why Now?(spyder.wordpress.com)

   106 points by croyd 13y ago|103 comments
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   by croyd 13y ago

   FP Complete has a web IDE: https://www.fpcomplete.com/business/fp-haskell-center/
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   by croyd 13y ago

   I'm currently trying to learn functional programming through Haskell. Glad to have found another resource, plus this cheat sheet linked from the page looks handy: http://cheatsheet.codeslower.com/
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   by croyd 14y ago

   "What would help, in my mind, is for kids to be able to learn each subject at their own, separate pace--one "micro-skill" at a time, advancing to the next only when all the micro-skills relied upon as a base for the next micro-skill have be
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   by croyd 14y ago

   I took Udacity's cs101 class as a (lazy) way to get introduced to python. While I felt like it was a very well done introduction to computer science, it wasn't a very effective way to learn a language as it made a deliberate effort to decou