Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is a fun, illustrated guide to learning Haskell, a functional programming language that's growing in popularity. Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! introduces programmers familiar with imperative languages (such as C++, Java, or Python) to the unique aspects of functional programming. Packed with jokes, pop culture references, and the author's own hilarious artwork, Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! eases the learning curve of this complex language, and is a perfect starting point for any programmer looking to expand his or her horizons. The well-known web tutorial on which this book is based is widely regarded as the best way for beginners to learn Haskell, and receives over 30,000 unique visitors monthly.

Miran Lipova?a is a computer science student in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In addition to his passion for Haskell, he enjoys boxing, playing bass guitar, and, of course, drawing. He has a fascination with dancing skeletons and the number 71, and when he walks through automatic doors he pretends that he’s actually opening them with his mind.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Starting Out
Chapter 2: Believe the Type
Chapter 3: Syntax in Functions
Chapter 4: Hello Recursion!
Chapter 5: Higher-Order Functions
Chapter 6: Modules
Chapter 7: Making Our Own Types and Type Classes
Chapter 8: Input and Output
Chapter 9: More Input and More Output
Chapter 10: Functionally Solving Problems
Chapter 11: Applicative Functors
Chapter 12: Monoids
Chapter 13: A Fistful of Monads
Chapter 14: For a Few Monads More
Chapter 15: Zippers