Thanks for this list.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Benjamin L. Russell <<a href="mailto:dekudekuplex@yahoo.com">dekudekuplex@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One hint that is not (at least to my knowledge) listed on <a href="http://haskell.org" target="_blank">haskell.org</a> is that, according to at least one user (see "The Programmers' Stone » Blog Archive » A First Haskell Experience" at <a href="http://the-programmers-stone.com/2008/03/04/a-first-haskell-experience/" target="_blank">http://the-programmers-stone.com/2008/03/04/a-first-haskell-experience/</a>), the online tutorials can "confuse more than they illuminate."<br>
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Personally, I would recommend starting with one of the available books (see "Books - HaskellWiki" at <a href="http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books" target="_blank">http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books</a>), instead. In particular, I would recommend one of the following titles:<br>
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* Paul Hudak: The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000, 416 pp, 15 line diagrams, 75 exercises, Paperback $29.95, ISBN 0521644089, Hardback $74.95, ISBN 0521643384. (See <a href="http://www.haskell.org/soe/" target="_blank">http://www.haskell.org/soe/</a>.)<br>
- This book uses multimedia examples to motivate learning Haskell, and is extremely interesting to read. The one drawback I discovered was that some of the exercises assume trigonometry, which I had learned long ago but forgotten by the time I started reading this book. In my opinion, this book is to Haskell as SICP is to Scheme (i.e., it is the authoritative textbook on this subject).<br>
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* Kees Doets and Jan van Eijck: The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming, King's College Publications, London, 2004, 14.00 pounds or $25.00, ISBN 0-9543006-9-6. (See <a href="http://homepages.cwi.nl/%7Ejve/HR/" target="_blank">http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/</a>.)<br>
- While this book approaches Haskell from a proof-oriented, mathematical perspective guided toward proving program correctness, it assumes only elementary mathematics and is very easy to approach. Personally, I found it much easier to follow than any of the existing online tutorials.<br>
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Another tip is to write your own version of Towers of Hanoi (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi</a>) in Haskell. Writing your own original programs is usually a much quicker road to mastering a programming language than just reading books, because it forces you to think in the target programming language.<br>
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Benjamin L. Russell<br>
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--- On Thu, 5/8/08, Ambrish Bhargava <<a href="mailto:bhargava.ambrish@gmail.com">bhargava.ambrish@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> From: Ambrish Bhargava <<a href="mailto:bhargava.ambrish@gmail.com">bhargava.ambrish@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: [Haskell-cafe] I am new to haskell<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:haskell-cafe@haskell.org">haskell-cafe@haskell.org</a><br>
> Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008, 1:37 PM<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Hi All,<br>
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> I am new to Haskell. Can anyone guide me how can I start on<br>
> it (Like getting<br>
> binaries, some tutorials)?<br>
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> Thanks in advance.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Regards,<br>
> Ambrish<br>
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