Having finally finished my first read of LYAH (It took me months of reading, practicing and taking breaks to let it all sink in), I can only see one way to improve upon it: Make a video series.
Why? I can't think of any advantage that a video has over an article when it comes to teaching computer science. An article allows me to read and understand each concept at my own pace and rereading something I didn't quite get is trivial. All these simple things are just tedious with a video.
While I don't need videos in order to learn, I find that seeing concepts represented visually while hearing them described by someone often works better than simply reading them. I've done some of CodeSchool's courses even though I already kind of knew the material, just because seeing it presented in that format helped reinforce things.
Furthermore, having coding exercises with a checker that can tell if you've done things correctly would help a ton when it comes to actually writing Haskell code.
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Why? I can't think of any advantage that a video has over an article when it comes to teaching computer science. An article allows me to read and understand each concept at my own pace and rereading something I didn't quite get is trivial. All these simple things are just tedious with a video.
While I don't need videos in order to learn, I find that seeing concepts represented visually while hearing them described by someone often works better than simply reading them. I've done some of CodeSchool's courses even though I already kind of knew the material, just because seeing it presented in that format helped reinforce things.
Furthermore, having coding exercises with a checker that can tell if you've done things correctly would help a ton when it comes to actually writing Haskell code.
I loathe videos for stuff like this, and avoid them like the plague, but I suppose that for some people they work due to the way those people learn.
Plus, the article is computer-searchable (Ctrl-f) and you can more easily point somebody to a specific passage or quote it.