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by murphm8 4049 days ago
Do you recommend Spring 2013 for a reason?

The Spring 2015[1] has a similar but different set of lectures/assignments. Do you think that is better/worse?

[1] http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/
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SirensOfTitan 4049 days ago
They're likely both good starting points. From a cursory glance of Spring 2015, here's why I like 2013 more:

2013 starts with Functor and builds into Applicative then Monad. I like this a lot, as each builds on each other: fmap has a tight relationship with <$>, and Monad is pretty much Applicative with bind (>>=). Applicative is a Functor and Monad is an Applicative (as of 7.10 I think).

I'm by no means super experienced here, but the 2013 course was the first learning text that really got me into Haskell.

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ac 4049 days ago
> fmap has a tight relationship with <$>

Yup, it's really tight: <$> is fmap

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sridca 4049 days ago
> Do you recommend Spring 2013 for a reason?

There were discussions on preferring Spring 2013 to 2015 here: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell/pull/72 https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell/issues/40

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