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Title: Just Enough Haskell to be dangerous
Proposer: Jeff Foster
Type: Workshop
Duration: 90 mins
Description:
In this workshop, we'll introduce Haskell with no prior knowledge assumed. We'll start by learning just enough syntax to be dangerous and then we'll jump straight into solving some problems in a functional style!
You'll start by learning how to read Haskell type definitions. You'll see how powerful type signatures are, and learn to have conversations with the compiler to fill in the blanks. You'll move on to defining your own types and see how types prevent errors.
Finally, we'll put it all together and build a simple combinator library for analysing a dataset.
By the end of the workshop, you'll be able to read Haskell type signatures and have a base from which to build your Haskell knowledge. Even if you can't use Haskell in your day job, you'll definitely be able to translate some of the ideas from this workshop into your language of choice.
Prior to attending this workshop, you should make sure that you've got the Haskell Platform installed and a sensible text editor (you'll be pairing, no Emacs/vi wars please!).