[Noisebridge-discuss] Haschool

[Harry Tormey]

+1 for haskell class.

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 06:58:24PM -0700, Jason Dusek wrote:
>   It's been suggested that a Haskell class would be welcome at
>   NoiseBridge.
> 
>   My preferred timeslot is 18:00/19:30 on Tuesdays. Please do
>   let me know what you think of that, especially if there is a
>   conflict. In the absence of any strong contention on that
>   point, the first class is on Tuesday, the 12th of May at 18:00
>   PDT.
> 
>   I've done a bit of Haskell teaching one-on-one; however, I've
>   not got a lot of teaching experience. I hope to improve myself
>   as a result of this class. Let's work together to ensure the
>   material remains relevant and engaging.
> 
>   Topics for first class:
> 
>  .  Haskell is special.
> 
>  .  Things to use for Haskell programming.
> 
>    .  GHC compiler/intepreter. Students on less common platforms
>       (Amiga, PlayStation, PalmOS) should contact the
>       instructor.
> 
>    .  Cabal build system and helpful package manager.
> 
>    .  Editor modes.
> 
>      .  EMACS has long had a Haskell mode but something about it
>         is screwy in the latest version. The Gentoo devs patched
>         it in their tarball, though.
> 
>      .  Vim has syntax support and in addition there's a VimBall
>         full of extra stuff. Your instructor regularly uses Vim
>         with this mode for Haskell editing.
> 
>  .  Building and using a simple library to download warez.
> 
>    .  Download/install Haskell's CURL bindings.
> 
>    .  Write simple program to download warez.
> 
>    .  Download lots of warez and experience handle exhaustion.
> 
>   Haskell is very improving for any level of programmer. Many of
>   us learn computation through the model of the Von Neumann
>   machine, the stored program computer with mutable memory
>   cells. Haskell invites us to consider computation from the
>   perspective of the typed lambda calculus. You'll be learning
>   to program all over again.
> 
> --
> Jason Dusek
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  | GHC compiler/interpreter. |
>   Save yourself a lot of trouble and use the binaries :)
>   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_2.html#binaries
> 
>  | Cabal build system and helpful package manager. |
>   http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html
> 
> 
>  |...VimBall full of extra stuff. |
>   http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/cr3/toolbox/haskell/Vim/
> 
> 
>  | EMACS has long had a Haskell mode...|
>   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_mode_for_Emacs
> 
>  | The Gentoo devs patched it in their tarball...|
>   http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/haskell-mode-2.4_p20080826.tar.bz2
> 
>  |...screwy in the latest version...|
>   Discussion begins at 18:17:32.
>   http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/haskell/09.05.08
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