Documentation

Docs on this site

• Getting started guide
• Common libraries and their documentation
• Locally hosted tutorials (edit and create tutorials on Github)
  • Exception Safety
  • Operator Glossary
  • Primitive Haskell
  • How to Build with Stack
  • How to Play with Stack
  • How to Script with Stack
  • String Types
  • Synonyms in base
  • Working with JSON data - aeson library
  • Asynchronous and Concurrent Programming - async library
  • binary library
  • Streaming data - conduit library
  • Containers - containers library
  • Making HTTP requests - http-client library
  • Command line options parsing - optparse-applicative library
  • Safe and simple exception handling - safe-exceptions library
  • transformers library
  • Run and interact with child processes - typed-process library
  • Efficient Packed-Memory Data Representations - vector library

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Books for Learning Haskell

• Haskell Programming from first principles
• Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming
• Thinking Functionally with Haskell
• Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell
• Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod

Courses

Course material created by instructors

• University of Pennsylvania's CIS 194
• NICTA Functional Programming Course
• University of Virginia's CS 1501
• Stanford's cs240h

Tutorials

Short, dense, classic ways to hit the ground running

• A Gentle Introduction to Haskell
• Yet Another Haskell Tutorial
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours
• Learning Haskell

Online Resources

Curated resources put together by Haskellers:

• The Haskell Wiki
• The Haskell Wikibook
• FP Complete's School of Haskell
• Stephen Diehl's What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell
• Chris Allen's List of Learning Haskell Resources
• Bob Ippolito's Getting Started with Haskell
• Albert Y.C. Lai's Haskell Notes and Examples
• Learning Haskell Resources on the Haskell Wiki

Manuals and Guides

Manuals and guides that cover common Haskell tooling:

• GHC User Guide
• Cabal Homepage And Quick Links
• Cabal User Guide
• Stack User Guide
• Haddock User Guide
• Haskeleton: A Haskell Project Skeleton
• How to Write a Haskell Program

Package and Dependency Management

The Cabal guide is a good start but there's a lot to learn:

• Stephen Diehl's Cabal Quickstart
• An Introduction to Cabal Sandboxes
• The Storage and Interpretation of Cabal Packages
• The Cabal of Cabal

Library Documentation

Documentation for Haskell libraries is typically available on Hackage. We also have specialized tools for searching across it, not only by name, but by type.

• Hoogle API Search
• FPComplete API Search
• Hayoo! API Search
• Hackage
• The Typeclassopedia
• Haddocks for Libraries included with GHC

Language Report

The Haskell 2010 language report is available online here.

A PDF version is available here.

It can also be downloaded as a darcs repository:

$ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/haskell2010-report