Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide

Name: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide
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ISBN: 9781593272838

ISBN-10: 1593272839

ISBN-13: 9781593272838

Edition: 2011

Authors: Miran Lipovaca

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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is a fun, illustrated guide to learning Haskell, a functional programming language that's growing in popularity. Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! introduces programmers familiar with imperative languages (such as C++, Java, or Python) to the unique aspects of functional programming. Packed with jokes, pop culture references, and the author's own hilarious artwork, Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! eases the learning curve of this complex language, and is a perfect starting point for any programmer looking to expand his or her horizons. The well-known web tutorial on which this book is based is widely regarded as the best way for beginners to learn…

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List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: No Starch Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 7.05" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Miran Lipovaca is a computer science student in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His online tutorial, "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!," is widely regarded as the best way to learn Haskell.



Introduction


So, What's Haskell?


What You Need to Dive In


Acknowledgments



Starting Out



Calling Functions



Baby's First Functions



An Intro to Lists



Texas Ranges



I'm a List Comprehension



Tuples



Believe the Type



Explicit Type Declaration



Common Haskell Types



Type Variables



Type Classes 101



Syntax in Functions



Pattern Matching



Guards, Guards!



where?!



let It Be



case Expressions



Hello Recursion!



Maximum Awesome



A Few More Recursive Functions



Quick, Sort!



Thinking Recursively



Higher-Order Functions



Curried Functions



Some Higher-Orderism Is in Order



The Functional Programmer's Toolbox



Lambdas



I Fold You So



Function Application with $



Function Composition



Modules



Importing Modules



Solving Problems with Module Functions



Mapping Keys to Values



Making Our Own Modules



Making Our Own Types and Type Classes



Defining a New Data Type



Shaping Up



Record Syntax



Type Parameters



Derived Instances



Type Synonyms



Recursive Data Structures



Type Classes 102



A Yes-No Type Class



The Functor Type Class



Kinds and Some Type-Foo



Input and Output



Separating the Pure from the Impure



Hello, World!



Gluing I/O Actions Together



Some Useful I/O Functions



I/O Action Review



More Input and More Output



Files and Streams



Reading and Writing Files



To-Do Lists



Command-Line Arguments



More Fun with To-Do Lists



Randomness



Bytestrings



Functionally Solving Problems



Reverse Polish Notation Calculator



Heathrow to London



Applicative Functors



Functors Redux



Functor Laws



Using Applicative Functors



Useful Functions for Applicatives



Monoids



Wrapping an Existing Type into a New Type



About Those Monoids



Meet Some Monoids



Folding with Monoids



A Fistful of Monads



Upgrading Our Applicative Functors



Getting Your Feet Wet with Maybe



The Monad Type Class



Walk the Line



do Notation



The List Monad



Monad Laws



For a Few Monads More



Writer? I Hardly Knew Her!



Reader? Ugh, Not This Joke Again



Tasteful Stateful Computations



Error Error on the Wall



Some Useful Monadic Functions



Making a Safe RPN Calculator



Composing Monadic Functions



Making Monads



Zippers



Taking a Walk



Focusing on Lists



A Very Simple Filesystem



Watch Your Step



Thanks for Reading!


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