Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
A Beginner's Guide
No Starch Press · Print & ebook · April 15, 2011
It's all in the name: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is a hilarious, illustrated guide to this complex functional language.
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- Who it’s for
- Learn Haskell through useful example code, original artwork, and a distinctly playful voice.
- Themes
- Haskell programming, Functional programming, Programming fundamentals
- Genres
- Programming Languages, Programming Basics, Computer Science
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It's all in the name: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is a hilarious, illustrated guide to this complex functional language. Packed with the author's original artwork, pop culture references, and most importantly, useful example code, this book teaches functional fundamentals in a way you never thought possible. You'll start with the kid stuff: basic syntax, recursion, types and type classes.
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Then once you've got the basics down, the real black belt master-class begins: you'll learn to use applicative functors, monads, zippers, and all the other mythical Haskell constructs you've only read about in storybooks. As you work your way through the author's imaginative (and occasionally insane) examples, you'll learn to: –Laugh in the face of side effects as you wield purely functional programming techniques –Use the magic of Haskell's "laziness" to play with infinite sets of data –Organize your programs by creating your own types, type classes, and modules –Use Haskell's elegant input/output system to share the genius of your programs with the outside world Short of eating the author's brain, you will not find a better way to learn this powerful language than reading Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
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Learn Haskell through useful example code, original artwork, and a distinctly playful voice.
Come here for
- A lively route from syntax and recursion to monads and zippers
- Functional programming explained with imaginative examples
Expect
- Illustrations, pop culture references, and practical code
- A progression from fundamentals to more advanced Haskell concepts
Where it sits
| Programming Languages | 76% |
|---|---|
| Programming Basics | 38% |
| Computer Science | 34% |
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Publisher categories
- Programming Basics
- Programming Languages
- Open Source Development
- Authors
- Miran Lipovaca
- Publisher
- No Starch Press
- Published
- April 15, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Haskell programming · Functional programming · Programming fundamentals
- Reading lane
- Programming Basics