Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - A Guide for Beginners (Lipovaca Miran)(Paperback)

It s all in the name: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is a hilarious, illustrated guide to this complex functional language. Packed with the author s original artwork, pop culture references, and most importantly, useful example code, this book teaches functional fundamentals in a way you never thought possible.You ll start with the kid stuff: basic syntax, recursion, types, and type classes. Then once you ve got the basics down, the real black-belt master class begins: you ll learn to use applicative functors, monds, zippers, and all the other mythical Haskell constructs you ve only read about in storybooks.As you work your way through he author s imaginative (and occasionally insane) examples, you ll learn to:- Laugh in the face of side effects as you wield purely functional programming techniques- Use the magic of Haskell s laziness to play with infinite sets of data- Organize your programs by creating your own types, type classes, and modules- Use Haskell s elegant input/output system to share the genius of your programs with the outside worldShort of eating the author s brain, you will not find a better way to learn this powerful language than reading Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
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