Beginners Track, ZuriHac 2025

Andres Löh, Well-Typed LLP

GitHub repository for this track

https://github.com/well-typed/beginners-zurihac2025

The high-level plan

Day 1:

• defining datatypes and functions
• pattern matching
• understanding inferred types
• some higher-order functions

Day 2:

• IO
• libraries

This will not be an exhaustive introduction, there's unfortunately not enough time.

More materials

There is a full introduction course to Haskell by me available online:

• https://well-typed.com/intro
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD8gywOEY4HauPWPfH0pJPIYUWqi0Gg10

Has videos, self-test questions, slide sets, and additional small prorgramming exercises.

There are other good options, more than I can list, for example:

• https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis1940/spring13/lectures.html
• Graham Hutton's book "Programming in Haskell", https://people.cs.nott.ac.uk/pszgmh/pih.html
• Rebecca Skinner's book "Effective Haskell", https://www.pragprog.com/titles/rshaskell/effective-haskell/