Название: Haskell Bookcamp (MEAP v6)Автор: Philipp Hagenlocher
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2023
Страниц: 236
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 23.1 MB
Learn Haskell by doing Haskell projects! In this book, you’ll get practical experience writing Haskell code and applying functional programming to actual development challenges.
In Haskell Bookcamp you will learn how to:
Use Haskell for daily programming tasks
Effectively apply functional concepts
Avoid common beginner pitfalls of Haskell
Apply abstract concepts in the Haskell language
Debug and profile Haskell applications
Improve the performance of Haskell applications
In Haskell Bookcamp, you’ll build your Haskell skills by working through hands-on challenges and conundrums. You’ll learn to look at each project through a Haskell lens, and then solve it using features like lazy evaluation, immutable data structures, and monads. And the projects are interesting! You’ll take on writing a tool for working with CSV files, creating a domain specific language for music, an image processing library using concurrency for high performance, and more!
about the technology
Haskell delivers clean and safe code with mathematical precision and certainty. The pure functional coding language lets you use high level abstractions to keep your code clean and easily readable, and it actively disallows many of the dangerous behaviors that lead to bugs and crashes. These features make Haskell an amazing choice for applications that need an extra guarantee of safety, such such as in smart contracts, data intensive applications, and large scale distributed systems.
Haskell is unique in many ways and generally helps us as developers to write safer and cleaner code that can more easily be checked against specifications and be more thoroughly tested, making the language a popular choice when programs are simply not allowed to crash! In this book we cover Haskell and many of its concepts from a real world perspective. Each chapter contains a project that will show you how to use Haskell effectively to solve problems that occur when writing real programs, not some artificial examples. To make the learning experience a bit more fun the projects range from creative, playful projects to tools you might want to use in the real world! All of them can be customized and extended to your hearts content! We will cover projects such as an unbeatable artificial intelligence for the word ladder game or a tool for working with CSV files or a musical synthesizer or an image processing library… If any of these sound fun to you, you’re in for a treat!
To get the most out of this book you should already have some programming experience and know your way around a few data structures such as a maps or trees. However, you are not required to know any functional concepts or have any knowledge on theory. We will gradually increase the difficulty of projects starting at simple utilities and ending at more complex applications.
about the book
Haskell Bookcamp builds your skills with production-quality Haskell code by creating interesting projects. As you work through each application, you’ll master Haskell basics and functional programming and dip into the language’s advanced features. Haskell’s abstract concepts can be confusing—so you’ll learn them from the ground-up with real-world examples rather than tedious academic exercises. Learn how to structure real-world applications, how to work with the Haskell tool chain effectively, and what to look out for when writing critical sections in the program's logic. Best of all, each project in this book is fully extensible and customizable so you can keep tinkering with your favorites!
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