Looks so promising. Haven't decided yet whether I'll view through these 15 whopping hours or study the written (massive-book-length) equivalent chapters on his blog..
Sizing this up, my real question now becomes: as an active day-to-day-life programmer, by how much exactly will this propel my work if I already know and use monads, basic function composition and Haskell?
I'm sure there's some amount of skill/quality/productivity payoff if you evaluate this kind of time investment over the whole lifetime-of-work outstanding, but seems impossible to judge beforehand. Any, er, "testimonials" in terms of how this actually changed work and coding for you or others, other than "just neat geeky theory to digest and reason about endlessly"?
It's just SO MUCH material to dive into (in terms of sources lectures books etc, I'm sure once grasped everyone could condense it into a single page, though fully comprehensible only to themselves, until for teaching others once again decompressed into 15-hours-of-lectures/26-chapters-totalling-book-length) and I'm still driven by this odd old urge to "just go pump out code and make programs happen" back from my earliest Pascal/Basic days I suppose..
I loved his videos, personally. I had some familiarity with basic category theory and functional programming, but Bartosz does a really good job of explaining everything without prior math knowledge. Compared to all the introductory books people recommend, he's an excellent teacher.
On the subject of it improving your coding, not so sure how much you could measure that. I think it's usually preferable to have a strong understanding of the basis of what you're working with, however, as it gives you some confidence to think critically about things you would usually just accept as fact.
I suspected as much. Still gotta dig into all this more deeply eventually, but given your anecdote it's probably fine to stretch this out over half a year, a weekend here, a train ride there, etc, rather than attacking it full-on
Sizing this up, my real question now becomes: as an active day-to-day-life programmer, by how much exactly will this propel my work if I already know and use monads, basic function composition and Haskell?
I'm sure there's some amount of skill/quality/productivity payoff if you evaluate this kind of time investment over the whole lifetime-of-work outstanding, but seems impossible to judge beforehand. Any, er, "testimonials" in terms of how this actually changed work and coding for you or others, other than "just neat geeky theory to digest and reason about endlessly"?
It's just SO MUCH material to dive into (in terms of sources lectures books etc, I'm sure once grasped everyone could condense it into a single page, though fully comprehensible only to themselves, until for teaching others once again decompressed into 15-hours-of-lectures/26-chapters-totalling-book-length) and I'm still driven by this odd old urge to "just go pump out code and make programs happen" back from my earliest Pascal/Basic days I suppose..