[Haskell-beginners] What to do next?

[Bob Ippolito]

I got a lot out of reading Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell
by Simon Marlow. Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki is also
quite useful. Haskell wasn't my first pure-ish FP language (I spent a lot
of time in Erlang) so for me it was really about wrapping my head around
Haskell's non-strict evaluation.

You could also try going through the exercises at http://exercism.io/ -
none of the exercises are too challenging but the code review component of
the site will keep you honest and will likely help you get closer to
writing better Haskell.


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:17 AM, bruce li <leilmyxwz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, there,
> I'm relatively new to Haskell...well... I mean I haven't done anything I
> believe truely in Haskell. I have gone through materials like Learn You a
> Haskell for Real Good, Real World Haskell, most chapters in Haskell
> Wikibook, Write Yourself Scheme in 48 Hours, Algorithms: A Functional
> Approach and other materials in Haskell Wiki.
>
> *But... what I feel is that I'm not confident while writing Haskell code.*Having gone through all those materials with "magic", I always feel I'm
> writing stupid code and there must be more elegant way... And... what's
> worse, I feel guilty while using IO monad but I simply cannot avoid it,
> like when I try to write code generator for a toy compiler, I need to keep
> state of the registers, which I need IORef... Then I feel its not pure
> anymore but I don't know how to get around it.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else shares this kind of feeling and what should I
> do next? Could anyone suggest any project to get hands on experience with
> Haskell?
>
> Another question is that the deeper digging into functional algorithms
> design (reading the book Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design), the more
> ignorant I feel. So how do I make up the basics like fold law, list
> induction etc. Any suggested reading materials?
>
> Well.. I think that's a lot question. Thanks for your patience and your
> kind help.
>
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