Hi, I know the issue of beginner's Prelude.
But how about "profile"? (like H264/MPEG4-AVC profile [1]) * Beginner Profile : beginner's Prelude or ghci beginner's representation mode * Main Profile : Haskell 2010 standard * Leading edge Profile : set of GHC extensions If beginners know exist of profile at first, they may avoid to confuse by step-up? More confused? Already we implicitly have at least two profiles (Haskell2010 and GHC extensions). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Profiles Regards, Takenobu 2016-02-18 16:45 GMT+09:00 Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvrie...@gmail.com>: > On 2016-02-18 at 04:02:24 +0100, Eric Seidel wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016, at 08:09, Christopher Allen wrote: > >> I have tried a beginner's Prelude with people. I don't have a lot of > data > >> because it was clearly a failure early on so I bailed them out into the > >> usual thing. It's just not worth it and it deprives them of the > >> preparedness to go write real Haskell code. That's not something I'm > >> willing to give up just so I can teach _less_. > > > > Chris, have you written about your experiences teaching with a > > beginner's Prelude? I'd be quite interested to read about it, as (1) it > > seems like a natural thing to do and (2) the Racket folks seem to have > > had good success with their staged teaching languages. > > > > In particular, I'm curious if your experience is in the context of > > teaching people with no experience programming at all, vs programming > > experience but no Haskell (or generally FP) experience. The Racket "How > > to Design Programs" curriculum seems very much geared towards absolute > > beginners, and that could be a relevant distinction. > > Btw, IMHO it's also interesting to distinguish between teaching > functional programming vs teaching Haskell. > > I've noticed that in the former case, instructors would often prefer a > radically slimmed down standard-library and conceal some of Haskell's > language features not pertinent to their FP curriculum (e.g. typeclasses > or record syntax). > > -- > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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