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Notes for Week 1 Introduction

Notes for Week 2 Getting Started

Notes for Week 3 Types and Typeclasses

Notes for Week 4 Syntax in Functions

Notes for Week 5 Recursion

Notes for Week 6 Recursion

Project Ideas

Stories About Haskell in the Real World

Sharing Code

We can use this Wiki to share ideas and talk about code. If you want to paste code, prefix it with four spaces, like so:

x = [13,26..13*24]
y = take 24 [13,26..]
z = take 10 (cycle [1,2,3])
a = take 10 (repeat 5)
b = replicate 3 10

GitHub Wiki Markdown Syntax

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!

1. Introduction
   • About this tutorial
   • So what's Haskell?
   • What you need to dive in
2. Starting Out
   • Ready, set, go!
   • Baby's first functions
   • An intro to lists
   • Texas ranges
   • I'm a list comprehension
   • Tuples
3. Types and Typeclasses
   • Believe the type
   • Type variables
   • Typeclasses 101
4. Syntax in Functions
   • Pattern matching
   • Guards, guards!
   • Where!?
   • Let it be
   • Case expressions
5. Recursion
   • Hello recursion!
   • Maximum awesome
   • A few more recursive functions
   • Quick, sort!
   • Thinking recursively
6. Higher Order Functions
   • Curried functions
   • Some higher-orderism is in order
   • Maps and filters
   • Lambdas
   • Only folds and horses
   • Function application with $
   • Function composition
7. Modules
   • Loading modules
   • Data.List
   • Data.Char
   • Data.Map
   • Data.Set
   • Making our own modules
8. Making Our Own Types and Typeclasses
   • Algebraic data types intro
   • Record syntax
   • Type parameters
   • Derived instances
   • Type synonyms
   • Recursive data structures
   • Typeclasses 102
   • A yes-no typeclass
   • The Functor typeclass
   • Kinds and some type-foo
9. Input and Output
   • Hello, world!
   • Files and streams
   • Command line arguments
   • Randomness
   • Bytestrings
   • Exceptions
10. Functionally Solving Problems
    • Reverse Polish notation calculator
    • Heathrow to London
11. Functors, Applicative Functors and Monoids
    • Functors redux
    • Applicative functors
    • The newtype keyword
    • Monoids
12. A Fistful of Monads
    • Getting our feet wet with Maybe
    • The Monad type class
    • Walk the line
    • do notation
    • The list monad
    • Monad laws
13. For a Few Monads More
    • Writer? I hardly know her!
    • Reader? Ugh, not this joke again.
    • Tasteful stateful computations
    • Error error on the wall
    • Some useful monadic functions
    • Making monads
14. Zippers
    • Taking a walk
    • A trail of breadcrumbs
    • Focusing on lists
    • A very simple file system
    • Watch your step