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Re:Erik Meijer’s suggestions for further reading in function... by tmhedberg on Friday March 25, 2011 @01:59PM (#2369557)
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (http://learnyouahaskell.com/) is another good resource for learning the language. It's a bit lighter weight than Real World Haskell, and doesn't have the breadth of practical examples, but I think it makes up for that by being more consistently interesting. I went through LYAH first and then Real World Haskell, and although the latter was very informative and useful, I found it to be painfully dull in certain parts (particularly the chapters that discuss the building of a JSON parser).
Re:Erik Meijer’s suggestions for further reading in function... by kgo on Friday March 25, 2011 @05:27PM (#2370422)
I agree on Real World Haskell. I couldn't put my finger on anything that was 'wrong' or 'bad' about the book, but just got bored with it and stopped reading halfway through.
Re:Erik Meijer’s suggestions for further reading in function... by chopsueyar on Saturday March 26, 2011 @08:59AM (#2371972)
The Barcode Recognition in Chapter 12 was fairly interesting. Anyone have some good beginning machine vision resources, Haskell or otherwise?
Re:Erik Meijer’s suggestions for further reading in function... by mdwrigh2 on Friday March 25, 2011 @10:24PM (#2371148)
I got caught up a month or two ago in the JSON parser and just kind of dropped it for other projects. It's unfortunate, because I feel like I was learning a lot, but some of the exercises in the chapter can be a bit unclear, and altogether it just wasn't all that terribly interesting.