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You should probably start by forgetting everything you know from JS
and Python. Of course I don't mean -everything-, but if you ever end
up thinking `I did it this way in JavaScript so I'll just do the
same here', you're probably not on the right track.<br>
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As others suggested, doing some exercises is a good way to get
started. I'd like to add to this by saying that the exercises
probably shouldn't be too much out of scope until you at least
finish reading LYAH. It's quite common to see someone on this
mailing list jumping in too fast which results in very poor Haskell
that is just pretty much a direct translation from a different
(often imperative) language.<br>
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I do suggest a small project once you finish reading though. It's
far easier to grasp the language if you have to look things up. More
often than not, to use someone's library will require the
understanding of the concept that it's built upon which means that
you end up learning more which is the goal here.<br>
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Good luck.<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/01/13 02:44, Philip Cote wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">So a week into Haskell, I still
seem to
be not “getting” it which is kind of weird in my case. I came
in
with knowledge of a lot of functional ideas from using them in
Javascript and Python. Or at least I thought I knew them.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">5 chapters into "Learn You a
Haskell", I admit it's not really sinking in for me even after
typing in and running all the examples. I acknowledge that I
don't know jack. Any ideas or exercises that might help me
along?<br>
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