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This portal points to places where you can go if you want to learn Haskell.
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The [[Introduction|Introduction to Haskell]] on the Haskell website tells you what Haskell gives you: substantially increased programmer productivity, shorter, clearer, and more maintainable code, fewer errors, higher reliability, a smaller semantic gap between the programmer and the language, shorter lead times. There is an old but still relevant paper about [http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html Why Functional Programming Matters] (PDF) by John Hughes. More recently, Sebastian Sylvan wrote an article about [[Why Haskell Matters]].
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There is also a [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Comparison table comparing Haskell to other functional languages]. Many questions about functional programming are answered by the [http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh//faq.html comp.lang.functional FAQ].
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Haskell is a general purpose, purely functional programming language. This portal points to places where you can go if you want to learn Haskell.
 
   
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You can ask questions to members of the Haskell community on mailing lists, IRC, or StackOverflow. We recommend installing the [http://www.haskell.org/platform/ Haskell Platform].
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The [[Introduction]] on the [[Haskell]] homepage tells you that Haskell gives you: substantially increased programmer productivity; shorter, clearer, and more maintainable code; fewer errors; higher reliability; a smaller "semantic gap" between the programmer and the language; shorter lead times.
  
   
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== Training courses ==
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There is an old -- but still relevant -- paper about [http://www.md.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html Why Functional Programming Matters] by John Hughes. More recently Sebastian Sylvan wrote an article about [[Why Haskell Matters]]. And there is a [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Comparison table comparing Haskell to other functional languages]. Many questions about functional programming are answered by the [http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh//faq.html comp.lang.functional FAQ].
  
   
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Short training courses aimed at existing programmers
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* [http://www.well-typed.com/services_training On-site and public training courses] by Well-Typed (2-day intro, 2-day advanced, custom on-site courses)
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* [http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/softeng/subjects/FPR.html Software Engineering course on Functional Programming] at the University of Oxford (1-week course)
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* [http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/USCS Summerschool on Applied Functional Programming] at Utrecht University (2-week course)
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== Material for self-study ==
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Below there are links to certain introductory material. If you want to dig deeper, see [[Books and tutorials]].
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=== Textbooks ===
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* [http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hudak/SOE/ The Haskell School of Expression]
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* [http://www.haskellcraft.com/ Haskell: the Craft of Functional Programming]
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* [http://www.prenhall.com/allbooks/ptr_0134843460.html Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell]
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* [http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item1129654/Introduction%20to%20Functional%20Programming%20Systems%20Using%20Haskell/?site_locale=en_US An Introduction to Functional Programming Systems Using Haskell]
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* [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lapalme/Algorithms-functional.html Algorithms: A functional programming approach]
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* [http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/ The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths, and Programming] (also freely [http://fldit-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~peter/PS07/HR.pdf available online]).
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* [http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html Programming in Haskell]
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* [http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ Real World Haskell]
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* [http://nostarch.com/lyah.htm Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!]
   
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=== Online tutorials ===
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* [http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/htut Yet Another Haskell Tutorial]
  
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* [ftp://ftp.geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at/navratil/HaskellTutorial.pdf Haskell-Tutorial]
  
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* [[Meta-tutorial]]
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* [http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~ralf/teaching/Hskurs_toc.html Online Haskell Course] (German)
  
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* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell Haskell Wikibook] A long tutorial on Haskell that includes "Yet Another Haskell Tutorial", "Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours" and "All about monads".
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* [http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/ A Gentle Introduction to Haskell]
  
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* [http://pub.hal3.name/daume02yaht.pdf YAHT - Yet Another Haskell Tutorial] (good tutorial available online)
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* [http://undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/230.301/lectureNotes/tourofprelude.html A Tour of the Haskell Prelude (basic functions)]
  
 
* [http://www.cs.ou.edu/~rlpage/fpclassCurrent/textbook/haskell.shtml Two dozen short lessons]
  
* [http://www.cs.ou.edu/~rlpage/fpclassCurrent/textbook/haskell.shtml Two dozen short lessons]
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* [http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/ A Gentle Introduction to Haskell] - classic text, but not so gentle really :D
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* [http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/%7Ejdtang/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overview.html Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours]
  
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* [ftp://ftp.geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at/navratil/HaskellTutorial.pdf Haskell-Tutorial]
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* [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_Haskell Hitchhikers Guide to Haskell]
  
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* [http://www.haskell.org/~pairwise/intro/intro.html Haskell for C Programmers]
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* [http://lasche.codingcrew.de/kurse/haskell/hskurs_index.htm Online Haskell Course] (German)
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* [http://collection.openlibra.com.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/haskell_tutorial_for_c_programmers_en.pdf Haskell tutorial for C Programmers]
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* [http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/marktoberdorf/ Tackling the Awkward Squad] (on I/O, interfacing to C, concurrency and exceptions)
  
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* [http://learnyouahaskell.com/ Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!] Beautiful, illustrated Haskell tutorial for programmers with less of a functional programming background.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2672EBC57C1F5F9B Learning Haskell] Ongoing tutorial in the form of YouTube videos; updates slowly.
   
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=== Advanced tutorials ===
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* [[Hitchhikers guide to Haskell]]
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* [http://www.haskell.org/soe The Haskell School of Expression]
  
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* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours]
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* [http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/craft2e/ Haskell: the Craft of Functional Programming]
  
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* [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/marktoberdorf/ Tackling the Awkward Squad] (on I/O, interfacing to C, concurrency and exceptions)
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* [http://www.prenhall.com/allbooks/ptr_0134843460.html Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell]
  
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* [http://books.cambridge.org/0521277248.htm An Introduction to Functional Programming Systems Using Haskell]
  
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* [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lapalme/Algorithms-functional.html Algorithms: A functional programming approach]
  
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* [http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/ The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths, and Programming]
  
   
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=== Debugging/profiling/optimization ===
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=== Monads ===
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* [http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)]
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* [http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/baastad.pdf Monads for Functional Programming]
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* [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/All_About_Monads All about monads]
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* [[IO inside|IO inside: down the Rabbit Hole]]
   
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=== Type classes ===
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* [http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/class/class.ps.gz The paper that for the first time introduced type classes and their implementation using dictionaries]
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* [http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellNewbie Haskell Newbie]
  
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* [[Research papers/Type systems#Type classes|More papers on the type classes]]
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* [http://www.cs.uu.nl/~afie/haskell/tourofsyntax.html Tour of the Haskell Syntax]
  
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* [http://zvon.org/other/haskell/Outputglobal/index.html Haskell Reference]
  
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* [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Reference_card Haskell Reference Card]
  
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* [http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html A tour of the Haskell Monad functions]
  
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* [http://www.cs.uu.nl/helium/docs/TourOfPrelude.html Tour of the Helium Prelude]
  
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* [http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/craft2e/errors/allErrors.html Some common Hugs error messages]
  
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* [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Category:Idioms Some Haskell Idioms]
  
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* [http://www.haskell.org/hawiki Questions and Answers (old Haskell wiki)]
  
   
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=== Generic programming ===
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* [[Scrap your boilerplate]]
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* [http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/d1pt/d1pta/external.html Programming in Haskell, Chalmers]
  
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* [http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs11/material/haskell/index.html CS 11 Caltech]
  
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* [http://www.cs.uu.nl/docs/vakken/lfp/ Functional programming]: course notes ([http://www.cs.uu.nl/~jeroen/courses/fp-eng.pdf English], [http://www.cs.uu.nl/~jeroen/courses/fp-nl.pdf Dutch], [http://www.cs.uu.nl/~jeroen/courses/fp-sp.pdf Spanish]), slides in Dutch
  
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* [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs1011/ CS1011]: Tutorials, lab exercises and solutions
  
   
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=== Popular libraries ===
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* ByteStrings?
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* [http://legacy.cs.uu.nl/daan/download/parsec/parsec.html Parsec, a fast combinator parser]
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* [[Modern array libraries]]
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* [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2Hs/Tutorials Gtk2Hs, the GUI library]
   
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=== Reference ===
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Check [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books_and_tutorials Books and tutorials] for a more comprehensive list.
  
   
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* The official language definition: [[Language and library specification]]
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* [http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/172/Haskell/tourofprelude.html Tour of the Haskell Prelude]
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* [http://zvon.org/other/haskell/Outputglobal/index.html Haskell Reference]
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* Haskell [[Reference card]]
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* [http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html A tour of the Haskell Monad functions]
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* [http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/bin/view/Helium/ATourOfTheHeliumPrelude Tour of the Helium Prelude]
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* [http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/craft2e/errors/allErrors.html Some common Hugs error messages]
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* [http://cheatsheet.codeslower.com/ The Haskell Cheatsheet] - A reference card and mini-tutorial in one.
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* A [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Category:Glossary Glossary] of common terminology.
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=== Course material ===
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* [http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course/TDA555/ Introduction to Functional Programming, Chalmers] (for beginners at programming)
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* [http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course/TDA452/ Functional Programming, Chalmers]
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* [http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course/afp/ Advanced Functional Programming, Chalmers]
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* [http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course/pfp/ Parallel Functional Programming, Chalmers]
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* [http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs11/material/haskell/index.html CS 11 Caltech]
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* [http://www.cs.uu.nl/docs/vakken/lfp/ Functional programming]: course notes ([http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~fokke101/courses/fp-eng.pdf English], [http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~fokke101/courses/fp-nl.pdf Dutch], [http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~fokke101/courses/fp-sp.pdf Spanish]), slides in Dutch
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* [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs1011/05s2/ CS1011]: Tutorials, lab exercises and solutions
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* Stanford - [http://www.scs.stanford.edu/11au-cs240h/ Functional Systems in Haskell]

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This portal points to places where you can go if you want to learn Haskell.

The Introduction to Haskell on the Haskell website tells you what Haskell gives you: substantially increased programmer productivity, shorter, clearer, and more maintainable code, fewer errors, higher reliability, a smaller semantic gap between the programmer and the language, shorter lead times. There is an old but still relevant paper about Why Functional Programming Matters (PDF) by John Hughes. More recently, Sebastian Sylvan wrote an article about Why Haskell Matters.

There is also a table comparing Haskell to other functional languages. Many questions about functional programming are answered by the comp.lang.functional FAQ.

You can ask questions to members of the Haskell community on mailing lists, IRC, or StackOverflow. We recommend installing the Haskell Platform.

Training courses

Short training courses aimed at existing programmers

Material for self-study

Below there are links to certain introductory material. If you want to dig deeper, see Books and tutorials.

Textbooks

Online tutorials

Advanced tutorials

Debugging/profiling/optimization

Monads

Type classes

Generic programming

Popular libraries

Reference

Course material

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