Programming in Haskell

Graham Hutton is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He has taught Haskell to thousands of students and received numerous best lecturer awards. Hutton has served as an editor of the Journal of Functional Programming, Chair of the Haskell Symposium and the International Conference on Functional Programming, and Vice-Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

• Foreword; Preface; Part I. Basic Concepts: 1. Introduction; 2. First steps; 3. Types and classes; 4. Defining functions; 5. List comprehensions; 6. Recursive functions; 7. Higher-order functions; 8. Declaring types and classes; 9. The countdown problem; Part II. Going Further: 10. Interactive programming; 11. Unbeatable tic-tac-toe; 12. Monads and more; 13. Monadic parsing; 14. Foldables and friends; 15. Lazy evaluation; 16. Reasoning about programs; 17. Calculating compilers; Appendix A. Selected solutions; Appendix B. Standard prelude; Bibliography; Index.

'The skills you acquire by studying this book will make you a much better programmer no matter what language you use to actually program in.' Erik Meijer, Facebook, from the Foreword