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#1 2009-12-13 22:10:16
- MrAllan
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Looking for good books about ....
Hi,
I'm looking for some good books on:
- Haskell
- Code optimization / design (I heard some good things about "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin, but I heard just as much bad things about it.)
My goal is to improve my programming skills.
Thanks for any input!
- Allan
P.S.: sorry if this sounds so vague, but I did not want to open two very similar threads...
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#2 2009-12-13 22:34:45
- Tim-spongefryshoutypants
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Re: Looking for good books about ....
Hey,
I'm by no means an expert in this but there is a good book on Haskell by Simon Thompson
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/craft2e/
Off the top of my head I'm not sure about the code optimization.
Tim
I'm a physicist. I have a working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains. --Sheldon Cooper
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#3 2009-12-13 23:29:39
- chpln
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Re: Looking for good books about ....
Lately I've been working through a copy of Real World Haskell. RWH covers the basics of the language, several common libraries, a handful or 'Real World' applications plus profiling and optimisation techniques, to list a few. The exercises throughout the chapters are of varying difficulty; generally with a few relatively challenging tasks.
Of course, it is not perfect. The errata is rather extensive. Fortuately, there are few errors which pertain to code itself, though it does make comprehension of the text difficult in places. Some exercises rely on knowledge which has not been introduced thus far, requiring the reader to skip aheaed several chapters.
Prior to beginning RWH, I've read the majority of Learn You A Haskell. As I'm still learning the language, I couldn't say for certain how comprehensive RWH is. Though my initial feeling is while it does cover a huge number of topics (and generally goes into sufficient depth), on occassion some important concepts are not properly introduced and require an additional text to understand later chapters.
While this may sound negative (I'm rather pedantic, really 
), I find RWH a very useful and thorough introduction to Haskell. It is available at online, but, if you like it: buy it.
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