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Today's Topics:
1. Re: book review? (Ramy Abdel-Azim)
2. Re: book review? (Stephen Tetley)
3. Re: book review? (Ramy Abdel-Azim)
4. Re: book review? (Brandon Allbery)
5. Re: book question (Tom Murphy)
6. Re: book review? (Tom Murphy)
7. Re: book question (Michael Orlitzky)
8. Re: Why aren't David Harley's QT bindings more popular?
(Tom Murphy)
9. Re: book review? (Philipp Schneider)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:37:15 -0400
From: Ramy Abdel-Azim <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] book review?
To: Sunny Basi <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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woops.
indeed i did.
I meant to ask about this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Haskell-School-Expression-Functional-Programming/dp/0521644089/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309282612&sr=8-1
thanks!
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Sunny Basi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you accidently pasted the mailing address email rather then the
> book title.
>
> A few good books that I know of,
> -Real World Haskell
> -Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design
> -Programming in Haskell
>
> - Sunny
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Ramy Abdel-Azim <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> has anyone read this book?
>> [email protected]
>> There are some mixed reviews on the product page. I'm a mid-level software
>> engineer. I've only started learning about Functional programming (didn't
>> even really learn about lisp in college) in the past 12 months. I'm looking
>> to learn more about functional programming to help me improve as a
>> programmer generally.
>> Thanks,
>> _Ramy
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:51:06 +0100
From: Stephen Tetley <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] book review?
Cc: [email protected]
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It's a good book - the only reservation I would have in recommending
it is that it is a "work through" book, you have to work through the
book in order to get its benefit. With say "Real World Haskell" you
can skip and skim chapters if you don't find them so interesting.
Also, you might want to check that you can find and run the SOE
"School of Expression" graphics software, it might not be compatible
with current GUI toolkits.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:05:29 -0400
From: Ramy Abdel-Azim <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] book review?
To: Stephen Tetley <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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ok, cool. I bought a hard-copy of "Real World Haskell". I'm interested
though in "flipping the switch" to more functional thinking. Any
recommendations on abook that would help toward that end?
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Stephen Tetley <[email protected]>wrote:
> It's a good book - the only reservation I would have in recommending
> it is that it is a "work through" book, you have to work through the
> book in order to get its benefit. With say "Real World Haskell" you
> can skip and skim chapters if you don't find them so interesting.
>
> Also, you might want to check that you can find and run the SOE
> "School of Expression" graphics software, it might not be compatible
> with current GUI toolkits.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Beginners mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:08:53 -0400
From: Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] book review?
To: Stephen Tetley <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 13:51, Stephen Tetley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, you might want to check that you can find and run the SOE
> "School of Expression" graphics software, it might not be compatible
> with current GUI toolkits.
SOEGTK is being kept up to date.
--
brandon s allbery ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? [email protected]
wandering unix systems administrator (available) ? ? (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:28:26 -0400
From: Tom Murphy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] book question
To: Roelof Wobben <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On 6/27/11, Roelof Wobben <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
>
> book.realworld.haskelll :
>
> Nice book with exercises but you need some functions to solve the exercises
> which are not mentioned in the book.
> So there it will be very confusing.
>
Hi Roelof,
It might seem like that - because RWH is a big book, and the
functions may be hidden in an earlier section - but RWH is a
beginner's book, which assumes no previous knowledge of Haskell.
If you're looking to learn through exercises alone, though, I'd
recommend Learn You A Haskell. In my experience, you can learn a lot
just by doing the exercises and completely ignoring the explanations.
Tom
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:31:27 -0400
From: Tom Murphy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] book review?
To: Ramy Abdel-Azim <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 6/28/11, Ramy Abdel-Azim <[email protected]> wrote:
> woops.
> indeed i did.
> I meant to ask about this book:
> http://www.amazon.com/Haskell-School-Expression-Functional-Programming/dp/0521644089/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309282612&sr=8-1
>
Excellent, excellent book!
I read it at the same time as Real World Haskell, and they
complimented each other very well.
Tom
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:35:47 -0400
From: Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] book question
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On 06/28/11 14:28, Tom Murphy wrote:
> On 6/27/11, Roelof Wobben <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> book.realworld.haskelll :
>>
>> Nice book with exercises but you need some functions to solve the exercises
>> which are not mentioned in the book.
>> So there it will be very confusing.
>>
>
> Hi Roelof,
> It might seem like that - because RWH is a big book, and the
> functions may be hidden in an earlier section - but RWH is a
> beginner's book, which assumes no previous knowledge of Haskell.
>
As a Haskell beginner, I will suggest that a less true statement has
never been made.
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:40:15 -0400
From: Tom Murphy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Why aren't David Harley's QT bindings
more popular?
To: Isak Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 6/28/11, Isak Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Michael Serra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> why do these bindings seem to be a less-popular option than
>> wxwidgets and gtk2hs?
>
> Licensing issues? -- http://qthaskell.berlios.de/doc/userGuide/license.html
>
> Spending any effort learning a GPL library is a non-option for me.
>
Can anyone elaborate on this? Is there any way to (easily)
separate code, so that your app isn't completely under GPL?
Tom
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:09:38 +0200
From: Philipp Schneider <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] book review?
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
On 06/28/2011 08:05 PM, Ramy Abdel-Azim wrote:
> ok, cool. I bought a hard-copy of "Real World Haskell". I'm interested
> though in "flipping the switch" to more functional thinking. Any
> recommendations on abook that would help toward that end?
Hi,
Real World Haskell is more about applying Haskell to real problems. If
you are more interested in training your functional way of thinking I
would recommend the book"Introduction to Functional Programming using
Haskell" by Richard Bird. It's not an easy read but the time working
through it is well worth spending.
Philipp
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Stephen Tetley
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> It's a good book - the only reservation I would have in recommending
> it is that it is a "work through" book, you have to work through the
> book in order to get its benefit. With say "Real World Haskell" you
> can skip and skim chapters if you don't find them so interesting.
>
> Also, you might want to check that you can find and run the SOE
> "School of Expression" graphics software, it might not be compatible
> with current GUI toolkits.
>
> _______________________________________________
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