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Re:Ask HN: Reviews for “A Type of Programming” eBook on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:49PM (#21251450)
In the book's Twitter account @atopbook you can find a good number of comments about the book: https://twitter.com/atopbook
Re:A Type of Programming on Thursday May 30, 2019 @08:44AM (#20050549)
Thank you for your kind words! And I am happy you appreciate it so much :)
Re:A Type of Programming on Thursday May 30, 2019 @08:16AM (#20050380)
I think you have some very interesting ideas, thank you for your feedback. I'll be improving the sign-up process taking these comments into account :)
Re:A Type of Programming on Thursday May 30, 2019 @05:22AM (#20049571)
I just made some changes that should make this clear. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this!
Re:A Type of Programming on Thursday May 30, 2019 @05:00AM (#20049514)
Thank you! I am glad you are enjoying it :)
Re:A Type of Programming on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:58AM (#20049503)
Thanks for your input. The email address is so that you can login afterwards, whenever there are new book chapters to be read. I'll clarify this, thanks!
Re:A Type of Programming on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:55AM (#20049488)
Thank you for your input. I'm sorry you felt this, I'll try to improve the user experience. I'll appreciate any ideas you may have about how to improve this.

I am glad you enjoyed what you read, though :)

Re:A Type of Programming on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:50AM (#20049462)
Hi, I'm the author of the book. Thanks for your input :)

The book is not free, this is not a paywall, and it's not a subscription: You are buying early access to the book so that you can start reading it before I am finished writing it. As soon as the book is complete, you also get an official digital copy of the entire book (PDF, mobi, epub, etc). The book is growing quite rapidly, it's currently over 50000 words covering many topics, so far mostly related to type-level reasoning. I will be adding a table of contents soon.

A Type of Programming (Book)

I am writing a book called A Type of Programming, and I am sharing the first few chapters at https://atypeofprogramming.com/The book takes a rather different approach to teaching in that it emphasizes understanding the meaning of programs through types and functional programming. The book doesn't assume any previous programming knowledge from the reader, but it is intended both for newcomers...

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