Haskell from the Very Beginning

by John Whitington

In Haskell from the Very Beginning John Whitington takes a no-prerequisites approach to teaching the basics of a modern general-purpose programming language. Each small, self-contained chapter introduces a new topic, building until the reader can write quite substantial programs. There are plenty of questions and, crucially, worked answers and hints.

Haskell from the Very Beginning will appeal both to new programmers, and to experienced programmers eager to explore functional languages such as Haskell. It is suitable both for formal use within an undergraduate or graduate curriculum, and for the interested amateur.

Chapters:

Getting Ready
Starting Off
Names and Functions
Using Scripts
Case by Case
Making Lists
Two Ways of Thinking
Sorting Things
Functions upon Functions upon Functions
When Things Go Wrong
Looking Things Up
More with Functions
New Kinds of Data
Growing Trees
The Other Numbers
Being Lazy
In and Out
Building Bigger Programs
The Standard Prelude and Base
Answers to Questions
Hints for Questions
Coping with Errors
Index

216 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2019

About the author

John Whitington founded a company which builds software for electronic document processing. He studied, and taught, Computer Science at Queens’ College, Cambridge. His books include the textbooks PDF Explained (O'Reilly, 2012), OCaml from the Very Beginning (Coherent, 2013), and Haskell from the Very Beginning (Coherent, 2019) and the Popular Science book A Machine Made this Book: Ten Sketches of Computer Science (Coherent, 2016).