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What are some good links for diving into Haskell and functional programming in general?
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good feels a bit like a Haskell version of Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. Lisperati has a neat Haskell tutorial based on making people happy at a picnic using simulated annealing; it only uses the word "monad" three times!
Real World Haskell is pretty good for a start.
There's also Yet Another Haskell Tutorial and A Gentle Introduction to Haskell
If you are going to look at Real World Haskell then be sure to sign up for the Real World Haskell Book Club which is a great discussion group and which will also be having regular virtual meeting to go chapter-by-chapter through the book.
An oldie but a goodie: "Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming"
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I am looking for a programming language fit for senior citizens that is:
easy to get into
can be used to implement easy functions and concepts (for loops, maybe a plot, etc.).
The language should be very light on the syntax side. The performance in terms of speed etc. is irrelevant.
What I am looking for is a way for people in retirement who are tired of crossword puzzles to be able to code as a pastime.
Thanks for any suggestions.
I think there are good opportunities for learning a programming language e.g. also for seniors. I think "becoming familiar" with the programming language is important. E.g. seeing how it works (samel like "using crossword puzzles"):
Programming language, which ist suitable for kids (and hence for seniors)
Kara - basic ideas of programming langauge will be provided here (
Scratch(visual programming language / Users of the site can create online projects using a block-like-interface)
Open roberta (encourage kids and maybe seniors using robots e.g. Lego Mindstorms)
Nepro programming language
Programming for advanced people (search for pupils and kid programming)
SNAP! (blocks based educational graphical programming language)
GameKit
Maybe there are some seniors with little programming experience from the past (e.g. school) then I would use the "old" programming languages
Lisp
Pascal
I would really recommend to start something easy and something visual, this helps seniors to understand how the algorithms working.
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Please excuse my poor English ,i am new to programming in the past 6 months i have learned java and c and have been suggested to get exposed to functional programming, is haskell a suitable language for a beginner?
Yes, Haskell is a suitable language for a beginner. In some ways it's easier to learn a functional programming language like Haskell if you haven't been steeped in the Object-0riented tradition. Since you're relatively inexperienced as a programmer, you're still learning the basics of how to analyse a problem and break it down into a series of definitions/steps, and how to debug; those skills are transferrable.
You will find Haskell very different from C and Java. But learning a functional programming will help you see different ways of looking at a problem. Even if you never program in Haskell professionally, knowing a functional programming language will make you a better Java or C programmer. And it seems that functional programming is the wave of the future, so it's a good skill to have.
You will find the Haskell community to be one of the friendliest and most helpful programming communities around (user2339071's reaction notwithstanding). So feel free to ask questions. Stack Overflow is not the best place for questions that require an opinion, but it's great when you have a piece of code you need help with.
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Are there any lists of tricky Haskell exercises that use monads in surprising ways floating around? I'm most interested in simple 'work out what this line of code does' or 'do this in point free using this monad' type questions.
Try to figure out why the programs here terminate.
It's not about monads, but these 20 intermediate haskell exercises could make your evening.
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind
I don't know what you call tricky, but if you've never tied the knot you should try to make iterative depth first search using knot tying (and make sure it terminates cleanly if no solution is found!).
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I've just stumbled across this fascinating article on the BBC website regarding producing music in realtime using a programming language - so called "Live Coding"
I can't seem to find much info on getting started having a go at this sort of stuff, has anyone here heard of Live Coding?
Where do you get the tools / IDE to start doing this stuff?
The Toplap website has links to people, audio, gigs, tools and demos. There are some introductory exercises there which provide some pointers. Chuck is an example of one of the programming languages used for this type of coding. Supercollider is an integrated environment and audio programming language that looks pretty good.
If you're on a Mac, you can try impromptu.
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Can someone please point me to articles or books that discusses different programming paradigm (function/logical/OOP)... I am not looking for the syntax details but the ideas that make them good..
for ex: using functional programming we avoid any side-effects.. If I know the idea I could write side effect free program even in a language (OOP) that does not enforce it.
Programming Language Pragmatics gives a pretty thorough overview of different paradigms. The book is about language design, so it talks a lot about syntax, semantics, type systems, target architectures, etc. The newest edition has an entire chapter on logical programming languages and one on functional languages.
As I understand it, the way to write functional in OOP is to make every member final (pretty much always). This avoids side-effects, and although I'm not really down with the functional programming, I think since I've started making variables final wherever possible my code has improved--so it's certainly got some benefits.
There is a reading list about programming language concepts here
I have started reading "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" by Peter Van Roy and so far its very good...