The best way to learn is to come and join us on IRC on irc.freenode.net #haskell — it’s very newbie-friendly, and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have.

If you’re having trouble finding resources for learning, a couple of the better ones which I’d recommend starting off with are the Wikibook ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell ) and “Yet Another Haskell Tutorial” ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/YAHT ). A good meta-resource is http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books_and_tutorials

Note that a common set-up for writing Haskell code is to just keep two windows open at all times — your editor and the interpreter/interactive environment you’re using. Hugs and GHCi both make it qiute easy to reload your file when you make changes (in hugs, :r wil reload, and in GHCi you can reduce that to just a single colon.). If you use GHCi, you can make temporary function and value definitions by prefixing them with ‘let’, but I still find that putting things in a file usually works better, as it means that you don’t end up losing work when a command ends up printing unbounded amounts of output.

Anyway, good luck with Haskell, and make sure to join us on IRC!

– Cale