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Thinking Functionally with Haskell
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Richard Bird is famed for the clarity and rigour of his writing. His new textbook, which introduces functional programming to students, emphasises fundamental techniques for reasoning mathematically about functional programs. By studying the underlying equational laws, the book enables students to apply calculational reasoning to their programs, both to understand their pr
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Hardcover, 350 pages
Published
October 9th 2014
by Cambridge University Press
(first published October 2nd 2014)
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Great read! A lot of exercises with solutions (not yet tried the exercises though).
A really good book on programming in Haskell, well suited to people with some prior experience with programming in any other language. It does a good job in changing the way you think about programming. The author compares mathematics to programming, shows that they are very closely related, and provides good examples and exercises to prove it. The author also likes to use proofs to validate pieces of Haskell code which is really cool. I also really enjoyed the Sudoku solver, which is unlike any
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Excellent book. Good introduction to functional programming and Haskell with emphasis on equational reasoning for program transformation and proving. This highlights the real strength of functional programming and should or could be an eye-opener for programmers unfamiliar with the functional programming style.
Every chapter ends with exercises which are definitely worth trying, first to get some hands-on experience with the material just read and second, to get a deeper understanding of the mate ...more
Every chapter ends with exercises which are definitely worth trying, first to get some hands-on experience with the material just read and second, to get a deeper understanding of the mate ...more
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