Re: [Haskell-cafe] teaching functional programming at work

2009-01-10 Thread Warren Harris
Thank you all for your responses on this. These ideas/materials are very helpful. In particular, the John Harrison book looks excellent (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/Lectures/funprog-jrh-1996/index.html ) -- a comprehensive and understandable introduction to all the concepts I had in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] teaching functional programming at work

2009-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
Warren Harris wrote: I am seeking suggestions from the haskell cafe for teaching functional programming concepts to colleagues at work. I'd suggest starting with a couple of hours of Why Haskell talk to sell them on the concepts, followed by something like the the study group you mentioned

[Haskell-cafe] teaching functional programming at work

2009-01-03 Thread Warren Harris
I am seeking suggestions from the haskell cafe for teaching functional programming concepts to colleagues at work. I'm currently working on a project using ocaml and functional programming techniques, and am a lone ranger at my workplace when it comes to this sort of thing (we are