📖 Learn you a Haskell for Greater Good

[badlydrawnrob]

Learn you a Haskell
— Baby's first functions

Some of the examples are very good in this book, and I like the general idea of making it somewhat fun to read, but the examples can get quite complex quickly after the first couple of chapters? The (Html) book is also very text heavy (which HTDP sometimes fails at) and not visually well put together.

Baby's first functions

The terminology quickly gets more complex as you go through the book.
It's text heavy and all in the same colour.¹
There's not many diagrams or visual representations of code
But ... I wonder if this kind of style could be maintained throughout a book?

Haskell's syntax is a bit weird. It might not be the best language to be teaching in!!!

-- Strange syntax
-- "Get list item by index" (starting at zero)
[9.4,33.2,96.2,11.2,23.25] !! 1
-- 33.2

Footnotes

1. This rewrite in Markdown is a lot nicer to look at (the code at least). ↩