HaskellBeginnersRessources

A list of Books, Papers, Tutorials, Coding Challenges, Online Courses, Blogs and Advice for learning the Haskell Programming Language

Created 16th May 2016

last fully updated / checked (idem)

Books

• Christopher Allen, Julie Moronuki - Haskell Programming From First Principles

60$ Download : Learning Haskell without having programmed before.

• Miran Lipovača - Learn You A Haskell For Great Good

free / 27€ paperback - similar to the above.

• Simon Thompson - Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming

57€

• Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, John Goerzen - Real World Haskell

free / 36€ paperback

• Graham Hutton - Programming in Haskell

50€

• Paul Hudak - The Haskell School of Music

free

• Kees Doets and Jan van Eijck - The Haskell Road to Logic, Math and Programming

free

• Simon Peyton Jones - The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages

free (and actually about SML, but pretty much explains how a Haskell compiler works)

• Chris Okasaki - Purely Functional Data Structures

free (also in SML, but applies to all pure functional languages)

Papers

• Philip Wadler - Monads for functional programming

• Philip Wadler - Comprehending monads

• Philipp Wadler, Simon Peyton Jones - Imperative Functional Programming

• Martin Grabmüller - Monad Transformers Step by Step

• Koen Claessen, John Hughes - QuickCheck: A Lightweight Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs

• Edward Z. Yang - Adventures in Three Monads

• Daan Leijen, Eric Meijer - Parsec: Direct Style Monadic Parser Combinators For The Real World

• Conor McBride, Ross Patterson - Applicative Programming with Effects

More Specialized Topics

• John Launchbury, Simon Peyton Jones - Lazy Functional State Threads (On the ST monad)

• Heinrich Apfelmus - The Operational Monad Tutorial (On a variant of free monads/interpreters; also available as a blog post and a package)

• Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton Jones - Scrap your boilerplate (The classic generic programming approach in Haskell)

• John C. Baez, Mike Stay - Physics, Topology, Logic, and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (Basics of category theory by practical examples from different disciplines)

Online (University) Courses / Tutorials

• FPComplete - School of Haskell

a compilation of many good online introductions to haskell. Very recommended on this site is Type Families and Pokemon

• Brent Yorgey - Introduction to Haskell

free course, recommended in School of Haskell and by the author of Haskell Programming from first principles... but if you are completely new you should read an easy Haskell book before this.

• Functional Programming Course

free course on github recommended after Brent Yorgeys Course

• Stanford : Bryan O'Sullivan : Functional Systems in Haskell

free course recommended after the course above (NICTA).

• EdX : Delft University : Erik Meijer : FP101x

• Universität Bielefeld : Prof. Dr. Robert Giegerich : Programmieren in Haskell

german

• Stephen Diehl - What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

best practices and good advice (as the title says). Sort of an advanced /complementary tutorial.

Coding Challenges

• code eval

free / account needed / job offers + recruitment system

• HackerRank

free / account needed, various problem domains (fp, c++, math, cryptography, ...) / job offers + recruitment system

• Kattis

free

• codewars

free / account optional

• codefights

free / account needed / job offers + recruitment system

• H-99: Ninety-Nine Haskell Problems

free / problems with solutions

• The Monad Challenges

free / start with Set 1 (don't skip it)

• The Computer Language Benchmarks Game

(From the site) Will your toy benchmark program be faster if you write it in a different programming language? It depends how you write it!

• Haskell Quiz

free / problems with solutions by various authors

• SPOJ

(From the site) SPOJ (Sphere Online Judge) is an automated programming contest website. It has a large problem set archive, and accepts solutions in many languages, including Haskell. Solving the problems can be a interesting way to learn Haskell. Explanation and Help here ...

• Project Euler

free / account needed, mathematical (yay)

• ICFP Programming Contest

an international competition that publishes the problems and solutions thereafter

Blogs

• Dan Piponi - A Neighborhood of Infinity
• Jeremy Gibbons - Patterns in Functional Programming Languages
• Chris Taylor - Math, Haskell, other stuff
• Richard Eisenberg - Types and Kinds
• Gabriel Gonzales - Haskell for all

Advice

• Read the Stack Overflow Info Page
• Read the paper were _ was introduced
• Read through the code of important libraries like Prelude
• Checkout/Read packages on Hackage