num_pages: 1189
description: I am writing this book because I had a hard time learning Haskell.It doesn't have to be that way. I've spent the last couple years actively teaching Haskell online and in person. Along the way I started keeping notes on exercises and methods of teaching specific concepts and techniques in Haskell that eventually turned into my guide for learning haskell. That experience led me to work on this book.If you are new to programming entirely Haskell is a great first language. You may have noticed the trend of Functional Programming in [Imperative Language] books and tutorials and learning Haskell gets right to the heart of what functional programming is. Languages such as Java are gradually adopting functional concepts but most such languages were not designed to be functional languages after all. We would not encourage you to learn Haskell as an only language but because Haskell is a pure functional language it is a fertile environment for mastering functional programming techniques. That way of thinking and problem solving is useful no matter what other languages you might know or learn.Haskell is not a difficult language to use. Quite the opposite. I'm now able to tackle problems that I couldn't have tackled when I was primarily a Clojure Common Lisp or Python user. Haskell is difficult to teach effectively.
language: English
title: Haskell Programming From First Principles
publisher: Gumroad