Get a practical, hands-on introduction to the Haskell language, its libraries and environment, and to the functional programming paradigm that is fast growing in importance in the software industry. This updated edition includes more modern treatment of Haskell's web framework and APIs.
This book contains excellent coverage of the Haskell ecosystem and supporting tools, including Cabal and Stack for managing projects, HUnit and QuickCheck for software testing, WAI and Elm to develop the back end and front end of web applications, Persistent and Esqueleto for database access, and parallel and distributed programming libraries.
You’ll see how functional programming is gathering momentum, allowing you to express yourself in a more concise way, reducing boilerplate, and increasing the safety of your code. Haskell is an elegant and noise-free pure functional language with a long history, having a huge number of library contributors and an active community.
This makes Haskell the best tool for both learning and applying functional programming, and Practical Haskell, Third Edition takes advantage of this to show off the language and what it can do. Free source code available on the Apress GitHub page for this book.
What You Will Learn
Get started programming with Haskell
Examine the different parts of the language
Gain an overview of the most important libraries and tools in the Haskell ecosystem
Apply functional patterns in real-world scenarios
Understand monads and monad transformers
Proficiently use laziness and resource management
Who This Book Is For
Experienced programmers who may be new to the Haskell programming language. However, some prior exposure to Haskell is recommended.
By:
Alejandro Serrano Mena
Imprint: APress
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd ed.
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Weight: 1.163kg
ISBN: 9781484285800
ISBN 10: 1484285808
Pages: 595
Publication Date: 25 September 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I: First Steps.- 1. Going Functional.- 2. Declaring the Data Model.- 3. Increasing Code Reuse.- 4. Using Containers and Type Classes.- 5. Laziness and Infinite Structures.- Part II: Data Mining.- 6. Knowing Your Clients Using Monads.- 7. More Monads: Now for Recommendations.- 8. Working in Several Cores.- Part III: Resource Handling.- 9. Dealing with Files: IO and Conduit.- 10. Building and Parsing Text.- 11. Safe Database Access.- 12. Web Applications.- Part IV: Domain Specific Languages.- 13. Strong Types.- 14. Interpreting Offers with Attributes.- Part V: Engineering the Store.- 15. Documenting, Testing, and Verifying.- 16. Architecting Your Application.- 17. Looking Further.
Alejandro Serrano Mena has more than a decade of experience as a developer, trainer, and researcher in functional programming, with an emphasis on Haskell and related languages. He holds a Ph.D. from Utrecht University on the topic of error message customization in compilers. He's an active member of the community, maintaining a few open-source projects, writing books about Haskell, and collaborating on podcasts and conferences.
