Re: Which computer language program is best for undergrads?
- From: scattered <former_schizoid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:17:41 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 17, 11:14 am, Angus Rodgers <twir...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:17:04 -0700 (PDT), scattered
<former_schiz...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The book "The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and
Programming" by Kees Doets and Jan van Eijck is a good exploration of
the link between Haskell and mathematics. This language is a good
choice if you are more interested in pure as opposed to applied
mathematics.
In the dim and distant past, I learned Miranda from Bird & Wadler;
and in the even dimmer and more distant past, I did a degree in
mathematics; on the other hand, in spite of some dabbling, I don't
have a sound knowledge of either theoretical computer science or
"real-world" programming techniques. Would this book be at too
elementary a level for me, or might I still learn something from
it if I want to try my hand at programming again?
--
Angus Rodgers
(twirlip@ eats spam; reply to angusrod@)
Contains mild peril
The book by Hutton is better for learning the language. It has some
mathematically interesting examples such as an version of Conway's
Game of Life (albeit with no graphics - just ASCII representations of
successive generations). I don't have a copy of the other readily
accessible (I had obtained it via inter-library loan) but I seem to
recall that it was primarily a discrete math text which used Haskell
as a tool and didn't go very deep into the language per se. A good
book for delving deeper into the language and seeing more real-world
example is "The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional
Programming through Multimedia" by Paul Hudak. This book has
interesting examples which include simple fractal-drawing programs.
-scattered
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