Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
4 Hour(s) 9 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Packt Publishing
Certificate
- Available
- *The delivery and distribution of the certificate are subject to the policies and arrangements of the course provider.
Rating
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Course Overview
Build scalable and robust applications with Haskell
Haskell is a powerful and well-designed functional programming language designed to work with complex data. Its emphasis on "purity" makes it easier to create rock-solid applications which stay maintainable and error-free even as they grow in scale.
This video would begin with the fundamentals and building blocks of Haskell programming language with special emphasis on functional programming. It will be covering how Haskell variables, syntax work alongwith Haskell datatypes and functions.
You will learn how to solve programming problems while creating an application with hands-on experience. You will then move on to learning writing expressions and high-order functions.
At the end of the video, you will be able to build a complete application with Haskell alongwith learning the important functionalities.
About the Author
Hakim Cassimally learned the basics of Lisp 15 years ago and has been interested in functional programming ever since. After Audrey Tang developed the first prototype of Perl6 in Haskell (Pugs), he got seriously interested in Haskell and has written, spoken, and evangelised about learning and writing Haskell since 2006.
Even when developing in other functional languages such as XQuery or traditional scripting languages such as Perl or Python, lessons learned from Haskell inform his approach and prototypes—whether it’s training software for a start-up, just-in-time sequencing systems for a car manufacturer, or data imports for a national media corporation.
His latest personal Haskell project is a Cryptic Crossword solver.
Course Content
- 4 section(s)
- 21 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Installation and Setup
- Section 2 Getting Started with Haskell
- Section 3 Developing a Word Game
- Section 4 Polishing the Word Game
What You’ll Learn
- Basics of Haskell datatypes and functions
- Using higher order functions for powerful data manipulation and code reuse
- Developing and build a Haskell app using a modern toolchain
- Writing and conducting tests
- Writing and deploy a simple web-application
- Saving and retrieving data from a database
Reviews
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SShreyansh Kumar
You have to pause a lot to understand. And it seems that the Instructor tries to speed things up unnecessarily. Good course for those who already know a bit about Haskell and worked with it in the past.
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PPhil Teng
The course instructor didn't explain details very much. For example, why do we need to configure the Spec.hs file in video 12. If you were trying to show unit tests, you could do it in video 16. Maybe a summary in video 12 is good enough. For pattern matching, I think there are some details the instructor didn't even mention.
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SSteven Stanton
A nice little intro to the language. The teacher has a clear and gentle voice. The project is good fun and touches on several different aspects of the language. The pace speeds up as the course moves on, and I feel would have benefitted from a little more explanation, and making less assumptions about the student's ability to follow / prior knowledge. That being said - as it is on video, you can always rewind.
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VVolker Rabe
Step by step tutorial on a practical example with loads of refactorings and good explanations.
