Haskell has lots of fancy weird corners, but you want to get rippin’ and runnin’

The Haskell phrase book is a new useful thingy. Nice and terse.

https://typeclasses.com/phrasebook

This one is also quite good https://lotz84.github.io/haskellbyexample/

I also like what FP complete is up to. Solid set of useful stuff, although a bit more emphasis towards their solutions than is common https://haskell.fpcomplete.com/learn

I was fiddling with making some examples for my friends a while ago, but I think the above do a similar better job.

https://github.com/philzook58/basic-ass-shit

Highlights include:

Makin a json request


-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings, DeriveGeneric #-}
module JsonRequest where

import Data.Aeson
import Network.Wreq
import GHC.Generics
import Control.Lens

data ToDo  = ToDo {
    userId :: Int,
    id :: Int,
    title :: String,
    completed :: Bool
  } deriving (Generic, Show)
instance ToJSON ToDo


instance FromJSON ToDo

my_url = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1"

main = do r <- get my_url
          print $ ((decode $ r ^. responseBody) :: Maybe ToDo) -- ((decode $ r ^. responseBody) :: Maybe ToDo)

Showing a plot of a sine function


module Plot where

import Graphics.Rendering.Chart.Easy
import Graphics.Rendering.Chart.Backend.Cairo -- Chart-cairo
import Graphics.Image as I -- hip

-- https://github.com/timbod7/haskell-chart/wiki/example-1
filename = "example1_big.png"

main = do 
        toFile def filename $ plot (line "a sine" [[ (x :: Double, sin x) | x <- [0, 0.1 .. 2 * pi]]])
        plotimg <- readImageRGB VU filename -- yeah,I want the plot to pop up
        displayImage plotimg
        print "Press Enter to Quit"
        getLine

Doing a least squares fit of some randomly created data


module LeastSquares where

import Numeric.LinearAlgebra

n = 20
x = linspace n (-3,7::Double)
y0 = 3 * x

main = do
        noise <- randn 1 n
        let y = (flatten noise) + y0
        let sampleMatrix = (asColumn x) ||| (konst 1 (n,1))
        let sol = (sampleMatrix <\> y) 
        print $ "Best fit is y = " ++ show (sol ! 0) ++ " * x + " ++ (show (sol ! 1))

Not too complicated stuff to get you excited about Haskell:

I love Power Serious. https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/powser.html Infinite power series using the power of laziness in something like 20 lines

https://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/monad-search.html Using the list monad to solve SEND+MORE=MONEY puzzle.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.42.8903&rep=rep1&type=pdf Jerzy Karczmarczuk doing automatic differentiation in Haskell before it was cool. Check out Conal Elliott’s stuff after.

Very simple symbolic differentiation example. When I saw this in SICP for the first time, I crapped my pants.


data Expr = X | Plus Expr Expr | Times Expr Expr | Const Double
deriv :: Expr -> Expr
deriv X = Const 1
deriv (Const _) = Const 0
deriv (Plus x y) = Plus (deriv x) (deriv y)
deriv (Times x y) = (Times (deriv x) y) `Plus` (Times x (deriv y))

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pdf Why functional Programming Matters by John Hughes

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Backus78.pdf John Backus emphasizing escaping the imperative mindset in his 1978 Turing Award speech. A call to arms of functional programming

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/richard-bird/sudoku.pdf Richard Bird defining sudoku solutions and then using equation reasoning to build a more efficient solver

https://wiki.haskell.org/Research_papers/Functional_pearls - Functional Pearls

Here’s how I find useful Haskell packages:

I google. I go to hackage (if I’m in a subpage, click on “contents” in the upper right hand corner). Click on a category that seems reasonable (like “web” or something) and then sort by Downloads (DL). This at least tells me what is popular-ish. I look for tutorials if I can find them. Sometimes there is a very useful getting started snippet in the main subfile itself. Some packages are overwhelming, others aren’t.

The Real World Haskell book is kind of intimidating although a lovely resource.

The wiki has a pretty rockin set of tutorials. Has some kind soul been improving it?

https://wiki.haskell.org/Category:Tutorials

I forgot learn you a Haskell has a chapter on basic io

http://learnyouahaskell.com/input-and-output

Learn more

When you’re ready to sit down with Haskell more, the best intro is currently the Haskell Book

You may also be interested in https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programming-delftx-fp101x-0 this MOOC

https://github.com/data61/fp-course or this Data61 course

Then there is a fun infinitude of things to learn after that.

More ideas for simple examples?

This post is intentionally terse.

IO is total infective poison.

standard output io


main = do
      x <- getStrLn
      putStrLn "Hello"
      print [1,2,3]
      print (Just 19022.32)
      print x

mutation & loops. You probably don’t want these. They are not idiomatic Haskell, and you may be losing out on some of the best lessons Haskell has to offer.

file IO

web requests

http://www.serpentine.com/wreq/tutorial.html

web serving - scotty

image processing

basic data structures

command line arguments

plotting

Parallelism and Concurrency

https://nokomprendo.frama.io/tuto_fonctionnel/posts/tuto_fonctionnel_25/2018-08-25-en-README.html