Well-Typed is happy to announce that once again we will be running Haskell training courses in New York alongside

C◦mp◦se conference Thursday, February 4 – Sunday, February 7, 2016, New York City

This conference is focused on typed functional programming and features a keynote by Eugenia Cheng and an excellent line-up of talks including one by our own Austin Seipp on Cryptography and verification with Cryptol. There’s also an “unconference” with small workshops and tutorials as well as the opportunity to get your hands dirty and try things out yourself.

For several years now, we have been running successful Haskell courses in collaboration in Skills Matter. The New York courses will be taught by Duncan Coutts, co-founder and partner at Well-Typed. He’s an experienced teacher and is involved in lots of commercial Haskell development projects at Well-Typed.

You can participate in our Haskell courses directly before or directly after C◦mp◦se in February, or if that doesn’t suit we are running two of the courses in London this April:

Fast Track to Haskell Tuesday, February 2 – Wednesday, February 3, 2016, New York City

(and Monday, April 4 – Tuesday, April 5, 2016, London)

Find out more or register here.

This course is for developers who want to learn about functional programming in general or Haskell in particular. It introduces important concepts such as algebraic datatypes, pattern matching, type inference, polymorphism, higher-order functions, explicit effects and, of course, monads and provides a compact tour with lots of hands-on exercises that provide a solid foundation for further adventures into Haskell or functional programming.

Guide to Haskell Performance and Optimization Monday, February 8 – Tuesday, February 9, 2016, New York City

(and Wednesday, April 6 – Thursday, April 7, 2016, London)

Find out more or register here.

This brand-new course looks under the surface of Haskell at how things are implemented, including how to reason about performance and optimize your programs, so that you can write beautiful programs that scale. It covers the internal representation of data on the heap, what exactly lazy evaluation means and how it works, how the compiler translates Haskell code to a target language via several internal representations, what you can and cannot reasonably expect the compiler to do, and how you can tweak the optimizer behaviour by using compiler pragmas such as inlining annotations and rewrite rules.

Guide to the Haskell Type System Wednesday, February 10, 2016, New York City

Find out more or register here.

This course is a one-day introduction to various type-system extensions that GHC offers, such as GADTs, rank-n polymorphism, type families and more. It assumes some familiarity with Haskell. It does not make use of any other advanced Haskell concepts except for the ones it introduces, so it is in principle possible to follow this course directly after Fast Track. However, as this course focuses on the extreme aspects of Haskell’s type system, it is particularly recommended for participants who are enthusiastic about static types and perhaps familiar with a strong static type system from another language.

Well-Typed training courses

In general, our courses are very practical, but don’t shy away from theory where necessary. Our teachers are all active Haskell developers with not just training experience, but active development experience as well. In addition to the courses in New York, we regularly offer courses in London.

We also provide on-site training on requests nearly anywhere in the world. If you want to know more about our training or have any feedback or questions, have a look at our dedicated training page or just drop us a mail.