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Effective Haskell: Solving Real-World Problems with Strongly Typed Functional Programming
Put the power of Haskell to work in your programs, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell daily to get practical work done efficiently. Leverage powerful features like Monad Transformers and Type Families to build useful applications. Realize the benefits of a pure functional language, like protecting your code from side effects. Manage concurrent processes fearlessly. Apply functional techniques to working with databases and building RESTful services. Don't get bogged down in theory, but learn to employ advanced programming concepts to solve real-world problems. Don't just learn the syntax, but dive deeply into Haskell as you build efficient, well-tested programs.
Haskell is a pure functional programming language with a rich ecosystem of tools and libraries. Designed to push the boundaries of programming, it offers unparalleled power for building reliable and maintainable systems. But to unleash that power, you need a guide. Effective Haskell is that guide. Written by an engineer who understands how to apply Haskell to the real world and uses it daily to get practical work done, it is your ticket to Haskell mastery.
Gain deep understanding of how Haskell deals with IO and the outside world by writing a complete Haskell application that does several different kinds of IO. Reinforce your learnings with practice exercises in every chapter.
Write stable and performant code using Haskell's type system, code that is easier to grow and refactor. Leverage the power of pure functional programming to improve collaboration, make concurrency safe and easy, and make large code bases manageable.
Implement type-safe web services, write generative tests, design strongly typed embedded domain-specific languages, and build applications that exploit parallelism and concurrency without fear of deadlocks and race conditions. Create and deploy cloud-native Haskell applications. Master the performance characteristics of functional applications to make them run faster and use less memory.
Write Haskell programs that solve real-world business problems.
What You
Intel based Mac, M1 Macs, Linux PC, or Windows with WSL2ghcup ( Haskell.org/ghcup/)An active internet connection will be required for some projects.
Haskell is a pure functional programming language with a rich ecosystem of tools and libraries. Designed to push the boundaries of programming, it offers unparalleled power for building reliable and maintainable systems. But to unleash that power, you need a guide. Effective Haskell is that guide. Written by an engineer who understands how to apply Haskell to the real world and uses it daily to get practical work done, it is your ticket to Haskell mastery.
Gain deep understanding of how Haskell deals with IO and the outside world by writing a complete Haskell application that does several different kinds of IO. Reinforce your learnings with practice exercises in every chapter.
Write stable and performant code using Haskell's type system, code that is easier to grow and refactor. Leverage the power of pure functional programming to improve collaboration, make concurrency safe and easy, and make large code bases manageable.
Implement type-safe web services, write generative tests, design strongly typed embedded domain-specific languages, and build applications that exploit parallelism and concurrency without fear of deadlocks and race conditions. Create and deploy cloud-native Haskell applications. Master the performance characteristics of functional applications to make them run faster and use less memory.
Write Haskell programs that solve real-world business problems.
What You
Intel based Mac, M1 Macs, Linux PC, or Windows with WSL2ghcup ( Haskell.org/ghcup/)An active internet connection will be required for some projects.
1116 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 18, 2023
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March 16, 2024
Disclaimer: I was one of the technical reviewers for this book and I know the author. I also provided an endorsement quote for the book, which I still stand by 100%:
Effective Haskell can take you from having no Haskell experience at all to writing practical and clean real-world code. It covers all the core topics you need to write real Haskell and pulls them together with some thoroughly worked-out example projects. The book has everything for a learning experience: clear explanations, code examples, exercises and even a more involved project. You can use the book as an all-inclusive learning guide and follow all of these, or you can use it as a pushing-off point to do your own thing—whatever style suits you best.
These days, there's an amazing amount of Haskell learning materials in the world: books, blog posts, tutorials, papers... But most of them either cater exclusively to beginners or to experts; good intermediate resources are thin on the ground. Effective Haskell fills that niche well; it starts out at a level suitable for complete beginners, but expands into more advanced language features and concepts, and helps you scale from small bits of self-contained code to structured applications. There's no substitute for working on larger projects yourself, of course, but a book like this structured the information you need to get up and running yourself.
Going forward, when people ask me to recommend a single Haskell learning resource, Effective Haskell will be my first suggestion.
As a professional Haskell programmer, it was always difficult to recommend a single up-to-date learning resource for new team members. This book fills that niche perfectly.
Effective Haskell can take you from having no Haskell experience at all to writing practical and clean real-world code. It covers all the core topics you need to write real Haskell and pulls them together with some thoroughly worked-out example projects. The book has everything for a learning experience: clear explanations, code examples, exercises and even a more involved project. You can use the book as an all-inclusive learning guide and follow all of these, or you can use it as a pushing-off point to do your own thing—whatever style suits you best.
These days, there's an amazing amount of Haskell learning materials in the world: books, blog posts, tutorials, papers... But most of them either cater exclusively to beginners or to experts; good intermediate resources are thin on the ground. Effective Haskell fills that niche well; it starts out at a level suitable for complete beginners, but expands into more advanced language features and concepts, and helps you scale from small bits of self-contained code to structured applications. There's no substitute for working on larger projects yourself, of course, but a book like this structured the information you need to get up and running yourself.
Going forward, when people ask me to recommend a single Haskell learning resource, Effective Haskell will be my first suggestion.
October 18, 2023
One of the best Haskell books I’ve read. Covers both the basics as well as the newer fancy features like DerivingVia, existential types and qualified constraints. Would recommend!
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