tutorials-haskell

Haskell tutorial

by Bayle Shanks

some code samples are from __Yet Another Haskell Tutorial__ which is by Hal Daume III

I'm writing this after I read some tutorials myself but before actually programming anything in Haskell -- it's a "blind leading the blind" situation. So this tutorial is probably filled with errors and misunderstandings. After I get some experience with Haskell I might come back and check it over and then remove this warning, if I ever get around to it

Preface

This (currently unfinished) tutorial aims to be short yet to cover topics through basic monads.

Much of the bulk of the text consists of short code examples and interpreter traces.

The intended reader has programming experience, but only in imperative languages, and wants a quick introductory tour of Haskell. The tutorial is not intended to be difficult, however in the interest of brevity many things are demonstrated without much explanation.

It does not aim to be comprehensive, so after reading it, interested parties may want to read a longer tutorial to get the details that are skipped here. Hopefully, after reading this tutorial, you will be able to breeze through a longer one.

Copyright

Copyright 2008 Bayle Shanks. You may copy this document under the terms of either:

• the Gnu Free Document License, or
• the Creative Commons Sharealike license, or
• the Creative Commons Sharealike+Non-Commerical license,

whichever you prefer (but not in any other circumstances without prior permission).

Note to people reading this on the wiki

(ignore this if you are reading the PDF). I'm using EasyLatex? to compile the wiki source of this page into a PDF. So don't mind the occasional LaTeX?