The Haskell School of Expression
Subtitle: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780521643382
Subjects: Computer Programming; Programming Languages - General; Multi-Media Hardware & Software; Functional Programming; Computers; Computers - Languages / Programming; Programming - Software Development; Computer Books: Operating Systems; Programming - Object Oriented Programming; Multimedia systems; Networking - General; Computers / Programming / Software Development; Functional programming (Comput; Functional programming (Computer science)
First sentence: Programming, in its broadest sense, is problem solving.
Description: "This book teaches functional programming using Haskell, the most popular purely functional language. The emphasis is on functional programming as a way of thinking and problem solving, using Haskell as a vehicle for expressing solutions.

Rather than using conventional examples from mathematics, which are commonly found in other programming language books, this tutorial uses examples drawn from multimedia applications, including graphics, animation, and computer music, thus rewarding the reader with working programs for inherently more interesting applications. The author also teaches how to reason about functional programs, using a very simple process of calculation."--BOOK JACKET.