Hacking in Haskell

Greg Price ( price ), MIT Student Information Processing Board

This class met Tuesday, January 29th and Thursday, January 31st 2008 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM in MIT Room 2-431.

Slides from class

Code examples from class

Haskell resources

(Adapted from a version by David Glasser.)

Books:

Paul Hudak, The Haskell School of Expression. An introduction to Haskell using graphics, sound, robot controllers, and so on. Goes from zero knowledge to pretty advanced. (In Barker.) Simon Thompson, Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming. Described as a very clear introduction to the language. (In Barker and SIPB.) Richard Bird, An Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell. An older and a little more mathy intro. (In Barker and SIPB.)

Online:

haskell.org Center of all things Haskell. A wiki, browsable for hours for all sorts of tips, tricks, and sample code. haskell.org/learning.html A compendium of tutorials and the like (e.g., Yet Another Haskell Tutorial.) en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours A tutorial that walks you through writing a near functionality-complete Scheme interpreter. Very classic thing to do in Haskell. haskell.org/hoogle Hoogle, a search engine for the Haskell library. hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html HackageDB, a collection of Haskell packages, recent and aiming to be CPAN. haskell.org/ghc GHC, the principal Haskell compiler and interpreter. haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries Documentation on the Haskell standard library. #haskell on the Freenode IRC network A friendly chat channel which caters both to those writing their first lines of Haskell and those who have deep questions about mathematical typing theory.

Interesting tools and libraries: