Re:Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast
by charlieflowers on Friday August 01, 2014 @10:52AM
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Publish it. Don't get caught up in perfectionism. This would be highly valued by me and many others even if it does "drag on" at times or lacks polish in certain areas. You have just recently bridged a gap that many would like to bridge, so it is still fresh in your mind what it is like to be on both sides of that gap. It's that freshness that lends unique value to your material. A 20 year professor might be an expert, but she has lost that freshness.
So publish it! Please!
Re:Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast
by JonnieCache on Friday August 01, 2014 @10:56AM
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Seconding this. Publish it, even if its a mess. Just make it CC, other people will clean it up if they think it's worth doing. If they don't, no loss to you.
Re:Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast
by willismichael on Friday August 01, 2014 @11:25AM
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As somebody who is looking for engaging ways to teach my young children math, I will also ask you to please please make this available. (And I can fully agree with previous comments regarding perfectionism and creative commons).
Wow, thanks for the interest :)
I will definitely publish it this weekend on Youtube (I'm not home right now so I don't have access to the files).
If you'd like to be notified about it, ping me on my email; I would love to have feedback on them!
I must have more than 15 hours of material that I recorded as I was piecing together what I was (and am) learning. I should put them online - I haven't done it yet because I think it drags on for too long, but maybe I should put up one or two and judge from the comments and go from there.
Mostly I gathered these ideas by first finding out that Set Theory is at the beginning of math. Then I found out how categories and types and sets are all equivalent. Then I read some papers that explained that and for that they needed to step back and give some intuition of each and how they relate to each other. I explored so many links, but the knowledge is scattered.
I will publish some of the stuff I made, now that I know there's interest, when I'm back home on Monday. If you want to know about it, send me an email (it's in my profile page) and I'll let you know.