1–10 of 67 posts
I am working my way through “Learn You a Haskell for the greater good”
I also have a side project to learn things by doing, but was wondering what the most recommended learning sources were which people found very useful.
To be clear it's also for learning, but I'm wondering what else is there outside of the Haskell/PureScript etc. world.
The first chapter is about Lambda Calculus which is kind of a Haskell meme at this point, but learning it actually did help me a lot to grok how Haskell programs are meant to fit together.
Other than that, just doing some basic side projects and leaning about how to use Cabal effectively should get you there.
Functional Programming in Haskell https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF1Z-APd9zK7usPMx3LGMZEHr...
For further self-learning, it might be interesting to learn about the underlying mathematical concepts, such as category theory. A deep dive into the workings of a Hindley–Milner type system might also help demystify some of Haskell's typing magic.
After that, I honestly think you'll get the best bang-for-buck by reading library-specific tutorials. If you play with enough of the libraries the rest of the language more or less falls into place.
Conduit is a pretty ok streaming library, and has good documentation: https://github.com/snoyberg/conduit#readme
Lens gives you a lot of useful features that more or less correspond to stuff like Getters and Setters in something like Java, and the tutorials for it get into some helpful details about writing Haskell code: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens
Otherwise it's basically a lot of "just build shit, and don't be afraid to feel confused" and it'll fall into place.