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Lecture Notes

The lecture notes can be found here. If you find typos or similar, submit an issue on the gitlab repo, where you can also always download the latest version. I'll update the local version here whenever there are changes regarding content, but not for minor typos and such.

Setting up Haskell

To do the assignments it is most convenient to be able to develop on your own computer. The best way to install GHC, the primary Haskell compiler, is to use GHCup: go to https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/ and follow the instructions for your platform. During the GHCup installation, be sure to install GHC and Cabal, but not Stack (nothing will necessarily go wrong if you do, but it can be more confusing to have both Cabal and Stack installed). If you want interactive compiler feedback in your editor, also install HLS (Haskell Language Server). (For VSCode there is a Haskell plugin that works well with HLS.)

If the GHCup installation does not work, first ask us (we might know what is going wrong and be able to fix it). If we cannot fix it, an alternative is to install Stack using the instructions at https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/; if you do this, you will need the stack instructions instead of the cabal instructions for the assignments in this course.

On Windows, a common cause for GHCup installation failure is overly aggressive anti-virus software; this may be the cause if the initial part of the script seems to work but downloading the actual software later fails. If you run into this, a fix is probably to remove your current anti-virus and install Microsoft Defender instead.

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