Haskell study group

[Pradip Caulagi]

We are forming a Haskell study/interest group. We are planning to
meet on 24th Feb. We had a brief discussion among the participants of
the previous meet and this is the summary so far -

Should we set some goals for ourselves before we meet
up next month? How about finishing up reading/working through "Learn
you Haskell" [1]? How many chapters? It is not that hard to read the
first 10 chapters, I think. Or should we look at other books? RWH [2]
moves very slowly and I find it to be a terrible "reference" text. In
terms of topics, we should get our hands dirty on the below topics
before we get into advanced ones.

- ghci -- the interactive repl of Glorious Glasgow Haskell compiler
- basic types
- higher order functions
- laziness
- currying and partial application
- type declarations
- type classes

We could take up a project and try to design it in one of the meetups
as well. One wonderful example could be to write a "Sudoku" solver
with a fully functional approach -- writing tiny functions with nice
type signatures to solve the problem part by part and then compose
them all together. We could get into Monads later when we understand
types and purity well.

[1] http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters

Are there others who are interested in joining this group?

[Shantanu Kumar]

It would be great if anybody can suggest a venue.

Shantanu

[Thomas Elam]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Shantanu Kumar <kumar.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

It would be great if anybody can suggest a venue.

Is anyone from ThoughtWorks going to come to the meetings?  I'm pretty sure they have some people interested in Haskell in some way and in some degree.  They have hosted several functional programming meetings in the last few years....

 

Shantanu

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[Amiruddin Nagri]

Hi Tom,

ThoughtWorks is usually happy if someone from TW is also attending the meetup and going to be present full time when the meetup is running. As for me, I am doing tons of MOOCs and won't be able to make time.

I will forward the email internally and see if there is any interest and let you guys know.

Cheers.

Amir

[Anand Chitipothu]

I suggest to move the meetup to Saturdays. Many people (including me)
would like to spend at least one day of the weekend with family. Most
meetups happen on saturdays. Can't afford to spend both days of the
weekend on meetups.

Anand

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[Pradip P Caulagi]

On Tuesday 12 February 2013 09:16 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote:
> I suggest to move the meetup to Saturdays. Many people (including me)
> would like to spend at least one day of the weekend with family. Most
> meetups happen on saturdays. Can't afford to spend both days of the
> weekend on meetups.

Sure. Lets have the meetup on 23rd Sat, then.

[Pradip P Caulagi]

On Monday 11 February 2013 07:31 PM, Shantanu Kumar wrote:
> It would be great if anybody can suggest a venue.
>

We can also have the meeting in our office on Infantry Road, next to
Hindu office. We can arrange for tea/coffee and some Samosa's.