Haskellings Beta!
We spent a few months last year building the groundwork for Haskellings in this YouTube series. Now after some more hard work, we're happy to announce that Haskellings is now available in the beta stage. This program is meant to be an interactive tutorial for learning the Haskell language. If you've never written a line of Haskell in your life, this program is designed to help you take those first steps! You can take a look at the Github repository to learn all the details of using it, but here's a quick overview.
Overview
Haskellings gives you the chance to write Haskell code starting from the very basics with a quick evaluation loop. It currently has 50 different exercises for you to work with. In each exercise, you can read about a Haskell concept, make appropriate modifications, and then run the code with a single command to check your work!
You can do exercises individually, but the easiest way to do everything in order is to run the program in Watcher mode. In this mode, it will automatically tell you which exercise is next. It will also re-run each exercise every time you save your work.
Haskellings covers a decent amount of ground on basic language concepts. It starts with the very basics of expressions, types and functions, and goes through the basic usage of monads.
Haskellings is an open source project! If you want to report issues or contribute, learn how by reading this document! So go ahead, give it a try!
Don't Forget: Haskell From Scratch
Haskellings is a quick and easy way to learn the language basics, but it only touches on the surface of a lot of elements. To get a more in-depth look at the language, you should consider our Haskell From Scratch video course. This course includes:
- Hours of video lectures explaining core language concepts and syntax
- Dozens of practice problems to help you hone your skills
- Access to our Slack channel, so you can get help and have your questions answered
- A final mini-project, to help you put the pieces together
This course will help you build a rock-solid foundation for your future Haskell learnings. And even better, we've now cut the price in half! So don't miss out!
