Computer-science: Functional Concepts

[TYRONEMICHAEL]

Are there any courses in the curriculum that cover Functors, Applicatives, Monads, Monoids and SemiGroups?

This is the only course that seems to cover some of the concepts. I am just not sure in how much detail.

[hanjiexi]

Hi,

The course requires reading Learn You a Haskell for Great Good:
http://learnyouahaskell.com/functors-applicative-functors-and-monoids

That isn't the best resource for learning functional concepts, but it
seems to be one of the best free resources. The best resource is Haskell
Programming from First Principles: http://haskellbook.com but it costs
money so we can't put it on the main curriculum.

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 2:14 AM Tyrone Avnit [e-mail] wrote:

Are there any courses in the curriculum that cover Functors, Applicatives,
Monads, Monoids and SemiGroups?

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[TYRONEMICHAEL]

That is unfortunate. It really seems to be one of the best resources to learn functional concepts. I know this has been discussed in length, but if there really is a better paid option, I believe we should at least let learners know.

[TYRONEMICHAEL]

Also I am not sure if this has been discussed, but since we are on the topic, it seems you have to pay a monthly fee of $49 in order to enroll for the algorithms course.

[ghost]

This issue had discoursed before https://github.com/open-source-society/computer-science/issues/407

@TYRONEMICHAEL SEE THE FINE PRINT AT THE BOTTOM 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

Audit this course

@hanjiexi I think we need to add a notice in the README to remind future learners that they still have an option to audit the course at Coursera.

[TYRONEMICHAEL]

Awesome. Thank you. Agreed, I am not sure many users will even know what audit means.

[ericdouglas]

@TYRONEMICHAEL @hanjiexi we can put a note saying that a paid resource is better than a free one.

What we shouldn't do is to put only a paid resource with no free alternative.

E.g.

• Required to learn about monads, laziness, purity: Learn You a Haskell for a Great Good!
  
  
  
  • OBS: probably the best resource to learn Haskell: Haskell Programming from First Principles paid
  
  

what do you think?

[hanjiexi]

I agree on all fronts, I will try to get some fixes out this week!

[TYRONEMICHAEL]

I came across the following resource on category theory. I have only just started reading the material, but could be another alternative to learn functional concepts as a free resource.

[illucent]

http://www.logicmatters.net (Category Theory for Philosophers): theory