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What is the best alternative to Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming?
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The Little Schemer
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Aids in teaching programming logic as well as Scheme
"The Little Schemer" teaches Scheme while also challenging the readers thought process in order to improve overall programming abilities.
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Lack of detail for more difficult concepts
"The Little Schemer" does touch on more advanced Scheme concepts, however includes only a weak explanation of them. For more advanced topics, the sequel "The Seasoned Schemer", is required.
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Creative and humorous teaching style
The authors write in a humorous and witty style that keeps the readers attention throughout the book.
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Structure and Intepretation of Computer Programs
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Knowledge can be applied to any language
This isn't a book you'll glean direct practical tidbits out of, an introduction to not only functional programming but how to think in a paradigm outside the usual way C*/Python/Ruby/Java/etc... are coded. Even if you wind up never working in Scheme or any other primarily functional language, the tactics and thought processes you'll learn here will apply to any currently-evolving language to a greater or lesser degree. You'll be able to map your thought process into the paradigm that works best for your current situation and not just be forced into a limited set of idioms that causes unnecessary boilerplate and clunky code mangling.
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Teaches very important programming concepts
Like closures and encapsulation without language support of objects.
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Very good for absolute beginners
This book gives a great insight about immutable and mutable state (with pros and cons), typisation, FP, OOP, and many other things in a very beginner-friendly manner
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Real World Haskell
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Poorly organized and hard to follow
The book jumps around, includes confusing function names and many of the code examples don't compile.
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Free
Available online for free.
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Not really "real world"
The book doesn't feel very "pragmatic". The title implies a practical approach to Haskell, but it takes way too long to be able to actually create something using this book as lot of time is spent on theory.
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Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns
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Short enough to read in a reasonable amount of time
It is a single blog post entry that doesn't take all that long to read.
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No real code
There are no real code examples given to demonstrate the points.
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Funny
The post is written as a humorous and engaging story about "Evil King Java".
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Argues FP by bashing OO
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Non-academic
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An easy to follow story form
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