Meta-tutorial

what i would like is a meta-tutorial

a list of questions about haskell, what does this do, do you understand this etc

and if you say no, it points you at a tutorial which explains it -- ndm on #haskell

One size does not fit all! The meta-tutorial aims to help you find the Haskell tutorials that you need. Note that from our description of things, some tutorials might seem "too easy" for your level, but they might be worth checking out anyway, for example, because they are particularly clear or well written.

Haskell in general

You just want a quick start

• Haskell in 5 steps

You are new to programming

• The Haskell wikibook
• Yet Another Haskell Tutorial

You have experience programming

1. You are new to functional programming
   • Haskell for C Programmers - Haskell hurt your C-oriented brain? Try this.
   • Programming Haskell - dons gets you building useful programs and playing with parallelism from the get-go
   • Hitchhikers guide to Haskell - Sick of tutorials starting slow and boring and then ramping up to incomprehensible? Try the hitchhiker's guide
2. You have programmed in other functional languages before
   • A brief introduction to Haskell - Concise tour of Haskell, translated from the article A brief introduction to OCaml
   • A Gentle Introduction? - Gentle seems to be a subjective term...
   • Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours
3. You just want to see what Haskell looks like at a glance
   • Simple unix tools
   • A Tour of the Haskell Syntax
   • How to read Haskell

Monads

1. You are new to Haskell
2. You don't mind Haskell syntax, but you don't neccesarily feel comfortable working with monads (for example, with do notation)
   • You could have invented monads! (And Maybe you Already Have!)
3. You learn best by doing exercises
4. You learn by metaphor or analogy
   • Understanding monads
5. You understand simple monads but now you need to make them nest and do tricks
   • Monad Transformers Step by Step
6. You want to see monads in practice
   • Practical monads
7. You understand category theory and you want to know what's the link between category theory monads and Haskell monads
   • The Haskell Programmer's Guide to the IO Monad

Practical stuff

1. You want to write a real life application or library
   • How to write a Haskell program
2. You want to just do IO and command line argument handling
   • Programming Haskell: argument handling
3. You want to write a simple network client
   • Roll your own IRC bot
4. You want to build a graphical user interface
   • With gtk2hs
   • With wxHaskell
5. You want to write a compiler or interpreter
   • Quick interpreters with the Reader monad
   • Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell
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