Do you recommend Spring 2013 for a reason?
The Spring 2015[1] has a similar but different set of lectures/assignments. Do you think that is better/worse?
Re:Secure Package Distribution for Haskell
by SirensOfTitan on Monday May 11, 2015 @02:23PM
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They're likely both good starting points. From a cursory glance of Spring 2015, here's why I like 2013 more:
2013 starts with Functor and builds into Applicative then Monad. I like this a lot, as each builds on each other: fmap has a tight relationship with <$>, and Monad is pretty much Applicative with bind (>>=). Applicative is a Functor and Monad is an Applicative (as of 7.10 I think).
I'm by no means super experienced here, but the 2013 course was the first learning text that really got me into Haskell.
> fmap has a tight relationship with <$>
Yup, it's really tight: <$> is fmap
> Do you recommend Spring 2013 for a reason?
There were discussions on preferring Spring 2013 to 2015 here: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell/pull/72 https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell/issues/40
Each `lecture` is comprised of recommended reading material (sourced from LYAH, RWH, Typeclassopedia, and others) and some reasonably difficult homework problems that build on the learned concepts.