Writing Haskell Programs

Name: Writing Haskell Programs
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Learn how to create, build, run, and test Haskell programs and reuse existing Haskell packages

Created byPackt Publishing

Last updated 6/2017

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What you'll learn

See the edit, build, execute, and test cycle your code
Discover what Cabal files are for
Use the Stack build tool and hints and tips
Find out how to create modules
Understand how to use modules to organize programs
Get to know how to import symbols from modules
See how to search packages on Hackage and Stackage
Use packages from Hackage and Stackage
Discover how to publish your own packages
Explore some useful and popular Haskell packages

Course content

3 sections • 13 lectures • 2h 43m total length

The Course Overview2:42
This video will an overview of entire course.
Developing Haskell Programs8:54
Developing real Haskell programs requires a code editor that is up to the task, along with a build tool for managing dependencies.
Cabal Files12:53
Cabal is the industry-standard method of building nontrivial Haskell packages.
Stack in Detail11:01
We’ll be using Stack for building our projects, and so we need to learn more about how to use the tool.
Stack Hints and Tips12:44
Typically, we’ll want quick feedback on our code changes. we may also want to iteratively develop test cases: Stack has various commands to help with this.

Introduction to Modules8:50
As our programs become larger, we will find that keeping the entire source code in a single source file becomes unwieldy. We may also run into problems with name collisions, and we may want to control the accessibility of the different names within our program.
Creating Modules26:42
We will look at how to create our own modules from scratch in Haskell. We’ll also compare “exposed” vs. “other” modules as well as re-exporting names from modules.
Consuming Modules12:13
Functions defined in modules can be imported in various different ways: we can even use appropriately structured imports to handle identically named functions from different modules as well as to hide names from modules.

Repositories15:35
Haskell’s most common package repository, Hackage, contains a wealth of high-quality open-source code; reusing other people’s code is a vital part of developing real-world programs and using packages is the standard way to do this in Haskell.
Searching22:46
Given the range of packages available in the ecosystem, ways to effectively search repositories is an important skill.
Navigating Packages18:28
Many packages exist, which solve the same problems in similar and, sometimes, different, ways: we will discuss the various factors of concern when wishing to make an informed choice.
Consuming Third-Party Packages2:06
Cabal and Stack offer many different ways to add dependencies on third-party packages: a brief introduction to the approaches will allow developers to depend on stable or development versions of the packages.
A Brief Tour of Popular Packages8:51
Hackage tracks approximately 12,000 packages; it can be an overwhelming job for newcomers to any programming language to make choices between the many packages. It can be useful to know what the most common packages are for a range of common programming tasks.

Requirements

Some comfort with introductory Haskell programming is expected.

Description

Haskell is a powerful, purely functional programming language that allows developers to express their designs elegantly and succinctly. Modern Haskell tools such as Cabal and Stack also allow developers to build and manage large and complex systems and to consume a vast array of high-quality open source libraries.

First we will start this course by learning how to edit , build and test our Haskell code. Then we will learn how to create modules in Haskell. We will learn about the various Haskell repositories and how to use them.Once we have our Haskell package in place we will end by testing our package using third-party ecosystems.

This course builds on the foundations provided by the Fundamentals of Practical Haskell Programming course and helps to bridge the gap between introductory and advanced Haskell by teaching you how to manage and develop complex programs. We'll also dispel the myth that Haskell is only useful for toy programs.

This course covers the important parts of the Haskell development process that are frequently neglected by beginner-level tutorials.

About the Author

Richard Cook is a staff software engineer at Tableau Software and works on high-performance relational database systems. He works primarily in C++, but has experience in a broad range of languages and technologies. He is a keen user of Haskell in his spare time and is frequently able to apply his functional programming and Haskell experience to his daily work. He is organizer of the Seattle Area Haskell Users’ Group and an active member of the Seattle functional programming community. He is currently developing a machine-learning framework for Haskell.

He has a deep interest in programming languages and type systems in general, having developed compilers and developer tooling in the past. He is also a keen user of Python and C# and works regularly on all major desktop operating systems and dabbles with web applications.

Who this course is for:

This course is for developers who already have experience with one or more programming languages, particularly object-oriented languages such as C++, Java, and C#.

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Edit, Build, Execute, and Test Cycles5 lectures • 48min

Modules Explained3 lectures • 48min

Packages and the Haskell Ecosystem5 lectures • 1hr 8min

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