The End of the Affair

Thanks for taking the Functional Programming in Haskell course. We hope you will continue your functional programming journey! May your functions always typecheck! May your stack never overflow! May your programs always terminate!

As you now know, there are lots of online resources to help you program in Haskell. The best starting place is haskell.org. Also check whether there are any Haskell Meetups near where you live.

Our final tip is about thinking in a functional way. Don’t binge on functional programming, i.e. take this crash course then go back to how you used to develop code. Instead, let the functional mindset affect your programming style. Do you remember how Simon Peyton Jones predicted that your brain would be rewired by Haskell. Has this happened to you?

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Acknowledgments

Before we go, Wim and I need to say thanks to lots of people who helped us to make the production of this course so enjoyable … so, we are massively grateful to:

• Andy Sim and the Media Team for their video recording and editing
• Vicki Dale and Kerr Gardiner for their course design and admin advice
• Frank Coton for agreeing to fund this project as part of the University of Glasgow’s Blended Online Learning Development initiative
• John T. O’Donnell who wrote the original version of the lecture notes that we have adapted for this online course
• Claire Lipscomb, our partnership manager at FutureLearn
• Simon Thompson, Simon Peyton Jones, Graham Hutton and Katie Ots for letting us interview them
• Christopher Done for his tryHaskell interactive environment, which we customized for this course
• Amazon Web Services for providing server credits for our interactive exercises
• the Haskell designers and developers for making such a great language and
• all of you, for being such a great learning community.

We are canvassing opinion on a further course — covering more advanced concepts in functional programming with Haskell. What do you think? Would you take a further course?