I've personally found language books that spend chapter after chapter introducing syntax and standard library to be brutally boring, and never finish them.
There's a lot to be said for just having a project idea in mind and picking up knowledge on the fly as you try to hammer it out.
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I've personally found language books that spend chapter after chapter introducing syntax and standard library to be brutally boring, and never finish them.
There's a lot to be said for just having a project idea in mind and picking up knowledge on the fly as you try to hammer it out.
I find this especially true in the case of Haskell. When I tried to read "Real World Haskell" my brain melted halfway through.