CIS194: Resources

Piazza

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Visit the Haskell Platform download page for Windows, Mac, and Linux installers and instructions.
If you have a favorite text editor (such as emacs or vim) it will work just fine for editing Haskell programs. There is a nice haskell-mode for emacs. Vim comes with syntax highlighting for Haskell out of the box; for more options try this vim haskell mode. Other editors commonly used with Haskell include Nodepad++, TextMate, Gedit, or Sublime.
If you are familiar/comfortable with Eclipse, there is EclipseFP, a full-featured Haskell plug-in for Eclipse.
For the intrepid, there’s Yi, a text editor written and extensible in Haskell (just like emacs is extensible in emacs-lisp). It is quite amazing, but tends to be difficult to install.
SageMathCloud allows you to get up and running with Haskell quite quickly. Make a new project with a .hs file, create a new Terminal window, and start using ghci. If you’re having major installation issues, this site seems capable enough to get you by.
Haskell PasteBin allows you to run programs that produce diagrams, right in your browser.

Your first stop for asking questions related to this course should be Piazza. However, if you have questions of a more general nature or are interested in exploring the larger Haskell community, read on!
The #haskell IRC channel is a great place to get help. Strange as it may seem if you’ve spent time in other IRC channels, #haskell is always full of friendly, helpful people.
tryhaskell.org gives you a ghci session in your browser, and includes a very simple tutorial. It also features an interface to the #haskell IRC channel.
hpaste.org is a good place to paste programs you’re having trouble with in order to get help from people in #haskell.
Many people from the Haskell community are active on StackOverflow, which can be a good place to ask questions.
The Haskell-beginners mailing list is a good place to ask beginner-level questions.
The Haskell-cafe mailing list can also be a good place to ask questions, but is much higher-traffic.
The Haskell wiki has a list of frequently asked questions.

FP Complete’s School of Haskell, a set of online tutorials.
Real World Haskell, by Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen, published by O’Reilly. A thorough and detailed introduction to Haskell that gets into the nitty gritty of using Haskell effectively in the “real world”. Can be read online for free, or in dead tree form.
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is a whimsical and easy-to-follow Haskell tutorial, with super awesome illustrations. Also available online or in dead tree form.
Beginning Haskell is a recent addition to the Haskell canon. It can be seen as an update of Real World Haskell. This is not available for free.
Some reflections on Haskell.
The Haskell wikibook actually contains a substantial amount of well-written information; a great resource if you’re having trouble understanding a particular topic and want a different approach.
The Haskell wiki is a huge grab-bag of all sorts of information, examples, explanations. The quality varies but it’s definitely a great resource.
The Typeclassopedia explains many of the type classes in the standard libraries (Functor, Applicative, Monad, Monoid, Arrow, Foldable, Traversable…).
Planet Haskell aggregates blog posts from the Haskell community.
There is a Haskell subreddit for aggregating Haskell-related websites, blog posts, and news.

Standard library documentation.
A useful Haskell cheatsheet.
Hackage is a huge repository of Haskell packages. If it isn’t on Hackage, it doesn’t exist. Packages can be automatically downloaded and installed from Hackage using the cabal-install tool.
Looking for a function but don’t know what it’s called? Want to see the documentation for a particular function? Hoogle searches many standard libraries and can search either by name or by type.
Hayoo is another search engine for the Haskell documentation, which is much more complete (it searches all of Hackage).
If you really want the nitty-gritty details of the Haskell language standard, see the 2010 Haskell report.