[frou_dh]

I've personally found language books that spend chapter after chapter introducing syntax and standard library to be brutally boring, and never finish them.

There's a lot to be said for just having a project idea in mind and picking up knowledge on the fly as you try to hammer it out.

[pestaa]

I find this especially true in the case of Haskell. When I tried to read "Real World Haskell" my brain melted halfway through.