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Re:Learn X in Y minutes by wilg on Sunday April 26, 2015 @04:00AM (#9440949)
Tried just this with Haskell, got about halfway through before I started feeling like things were being glossed over.
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Re:Learn X in Y minutes by codygman on Sunday April 26, 2015 @03:53PM (#9443041)
Mind elaborating where you felt like things were being glossed over?

Is glossing over things necessarily a bad thing? Isn't learnXinY just an introduction site?

Have you tried the howistart[0] for Haskell?

0: http://howistart.org/posts/haskell/1

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Re:Learn X in Y minutes by wilg on Sunday April 26, 2015 @04:22PM (#9443118)
Not saying I don't like the site – it's pretty cool. Just replying to the person talking about trying to pick up unfamiliar languages with it.

I started getting a bit turned around when I got to Guards and Pattern Matching, which are concepts I'm not super familiar with. I wasn't really legitimately trying to learn Haskell, just casually looking into it for funzies.

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Re:Learn X in Y minutes by logicallee on Sunday April 26, 2015 @07:20AM (#9441375)
how long did it take you to read halfway through?
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Re:Learn X in Y minutes by wilg on Sunday April 26, 2015 @04:23PM (#9443122)
Not sure, maybe 10-15 minutes?
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