Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach 1st ed. Edition

by Alejandro Serrano Mena (Author)

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Beginning Haskell provides a broad-based introduction to the Haskell language, its libraries and environment, and to the functional programming paradigm that is fast growing in importance in the software industry. The book takes a project-based approach to learning the language that is unified around the building of a web-based storefront. Excellent coverage is given to the Haskell ecosystem and supporting tools. These include the Cabal build tool for managing projects and modules, the HUnit and QuickCheck tools for software testing, the Scotty framework for developing web applications, Persistent and Esqueleto for database access, and also parallel and distributed programming libraries.

Functional programming is gathering momentum, allowing programmers to express themselves in a more concise way, reducing boilerplate and increasing the safety of code. Indeed, mainstream languages such as C# and Java are adopting features from functional programming, and from languages implementing that paradigm. Haskell is an elegant and noise-free pure functional language with a long history, having a huge number of library contributors and an active community. This makes Haskell the best tool for both learning and applying functional programming, and Beginning Haskell the perfect book to show off the language and what it can do.

Takes you through a series of projects showing the different parts of the language.
Provides an overview of the most important libraries and tools in the Haskell ecosystem.
Teaches you how to apply functional patterns in real-world scenarios.

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Alejandro Serrano Mena is working towards his PhD thesis inthe Software Technology group in Utrecht University. He is passionate forfunctional programming, and has been coding Haskell for personal andprofessional projects for more than five years. During his college years he wasactive in an association promoting functional languages among students, givingtalks and helping programmers get started in the functional paradigm. In 2011he took part in the Google Summer of Code program, enhancing the Haskellplug-in for the popular development environment Eclipse. His current positioninvolves research for enhancing the way in which developers get feedback andinteract with strong type systems such as Haskell's.

Paperback: 428 pages
Publisher: Apress; 1st ed. edition (January 24, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1430262508
ISBN-13: 978-1430262503
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1 x 9.2 inches
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EvXyz

Not for "beginners"

August 19, 2014

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Extensive and practical but not a beginner's book. Hence the loss of a star, for being somewhat misleading.
This is more in the tradition or "Real World Haskell" which needs a new edition.
If you have been exposed to Scheme or Clojure or Lisp, etc. Then this can serve as a beginning text for Haskell, otherwise;
beginners would do well, to have a go at "Learn You A Haskell For Greater Good" first; which IS a beginners book;
and if the sophomoric tone gets on your nerves, you could also try Thompson's "Craft of Functional Programming" 3rd edition; beware of earlier editions as they are from before the 2010 Haskell revision and may use deprecated compilers.
Many other Haskell texts from the previous decade also use Unicode symbols which will require translating to ASCII if you wish to use the REPL to play with the examples.
Happily all the above mentioned have their examples in ASCII, so you can copy them out and they will most likely compile;
as long as you remember to set your tabs to spaces, which is the #1 noob headache for first time Haskellers.
I welcome more books on Haskell and this certainly fits into the ecosystem of instructional Haskell texts, but it's not what I would consider a beginner's text, that said there is much here to recommend. Check the errata for corrections as there are quite a few.

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lambdaLove

If you're entirely new to Haskell, don't start with this book

February 8, 2015

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This book is VERY fast paced. If this were my first book on Haskell, I think I'd be rather overwhelmed. Often times the writing is not very clear. As others have mentioned, it could have benefitted from more editing and revising, not only to clean up typos and grammatical errors, but also to make the text more readily understandable. If you are serious about studying Haskell, this is definitely a worthwhile read, but I'd start with another book first.

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August 14, 2014

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Typos and bad grammar everywhere. I've read reviews elsewhere that say there are technical inaccuracies (didn't get far enough to verify this myself). I would be disappointed even if the book was free. Look elsewhere for a good book to learn Haskell with, at least until another edition is released.

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J. G.

Not the Haskell book you're looking for

August 21, 2014

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This book suffers some major flaws. First, I think someone new to Haskell (or not already familiar with a similar language) will really struggle with the pace of the material. So in that regards, its not really a "Beginning" book. Beginners will benefit far more from the book Learn You a Haskell for Great Good. Secondly, there isn't a single page that is without one or more: spelling errors, grammatical errors, or just plain awkward English sentences. This is really distracting, especially in technical books where language needs to be precise. It is obvious that English isn't the author's first language, so I can forgive him. However, the publisher should have put more effort into editing the manuscript before setting it to paper. By the shear quantity of mistakes, I suspect that they never even bothered reading it.

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Tobias Pflug

A welcome addition to my Haskell library

February 13, 2014

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Learning a functional programming language such as Haskell can be challenging for anyone who learned programming with a procedual programming language. I found this book helpful in bettering my understanding of Haskell.

To the newcomer writings about Haskell are often clouded by layers of bewildering discussions on category theory, functors,
arrows, monoids and, above all, the Monad. While readers of Alejandro's book won't miss out on theory where it is essential, the more daunting theoretical aspects are not mentioned for a good part of the book in which readers already can get their feet wet if they choose to solve the exercises posed in each chapter. This works out well. At no point did I find myself just following concepts that are thrown at me without understanding them.

Throughout the book new concepts are introduced and put to use in practical examples. While this works well, I find this does not do the proclaimed 'project based approach' justice. Then again If the subtitle had just been left out there would be nothing for me to complain about.

The material is up to date and thus features chapters dealing with topics such as lenses or cabal sandboxes. Both of which are not covered in any of the currently available Haskell books (that I am aware of). The author uses EclipseFP and cabal for project setup. However the use of eclipse is completely optional and I can follow just fine using vim and cabal on the command line.

There are typing errors here and there but for the first edition of a 400+ book this can be excused.

Prior to the publication of this book my recommendation to aspiring Haskell programmers would have been to buy 'Real World Haskell' and 'Learn You A Haskell For Great Good'. Now I would say your best bet is to get 'Beginning Haskell' and 'Learn You A Haskell For Great Good' (And also read it in that order). Thus my verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. Well done.

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Jan Kroken

A great book for learning Haskell - but tarnished by a lack of QA

October 7, 2014

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This is the best Haskell book available if you want to learn modern Haskell at a reasonably fast pace, and close to the reality of actually implementing useful things. It has some issues, listed below, but while these are significant, the book in total is still good enough to warrant 5 stars.

The problems are all due to lack of proof reading/quality assurance. There's plenty of spelling mistakes, a couple of places the pacing could be better and throughout the book, examples contains references to earlier code that exists in multiple variants. Some library interfaces have also changes slightly since the publication of this book.

This book deserves a second edition with proper QA and proofreading.

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