shawnritchie / haskell_tutorial_cookbook_examples

Code samples for my book "Haskell Tutorial and Cookbook"

Examples for "Haskell Tutorial and Cookbook" by Mark Watson

This repo contains the examples for my Haskell book:

Haskell Tutorial and Cookbook

Updated 3/2/2017 to stack lts-8.3 (ghc-8.0.2)

Book Table of Contents (This will change as the book is written)

Contents
Cover Material, Copyright, and License
Preface
 A Request from the Author
 Structure of the Book
 Code Examples
 Functional Programming Requires a Different Mind Set
 Why Haskell?
 
Section 1 - Tutorial

Tutorial on Pure Haskell Programming
  Interactive GHCi Shell
  Using Parenthesis or the Special $ Character and Operator Precedence  
  Lazy Evaluation
  Understanding List Comprehensions 
  Haskell Rules for Indenting Code
  Understanding let and where 
  Conditional Statements and Anonymous Functions 
  Maps
  Sets
  More on Functions
  Comments on Dealing With Immutable Data and How to Structure Programs
  Error Handling
  Testing Haskell Code
 
Tutorial on Impure Haskell Programming
  Hello World Simple Main Program 
  Console IO
  FileIO
  Error Handling in Impure Code
  Network IO
  A More Detailed Look at Monads
  List Comprehensions Using the do Notation
  Using Mutable Maps
  Mutable State Using the State Monad
  Database Access for Sqlite
  Database Access for Postgres
  Dealing With Time
  Writing CommandLine Applications in Haskell

Section 2 - Cookbook

  Text Processing
  CSV Spreadsheet Files
  JSON Data
  Cleaning Natural Languge Text
  Natural Language Processing Tools
  Resolve Entities in Text to DBPedia URIs
  Bag of Words Classification Model
  Text Summarization
  Web Scraping
  Haskell Libraries
  Linked Data and the Semantic Web
  Play a simple version of the Blackjack card game
  
Appendix A - Haskell Tools Setup

  Stack
  Emacs Setup
  Do you want more of an IDE-like Development Environment?
  hlint

Tool Installation

See Appendix A in my book, or simply install stack and hlint.