learning_purescript

Up And Running

Up And Running section is meant to help readers take their existing knowledge in other languages and translate it to PureScript. This involves -

• Setting up the PureScript development environment
• Executing and understanding the "Hello world" program
• Introduce the concepts familar to most programmers such as
  • "primitive" datatypes
  • condition expressions
  • looping (recursion)
  • strings
  • Arrays
  • Objects
  • Functions
• Introduction into Foriegn Function Interface. Teaching how to call PureScript code from JavaScript.

Guide through the book

This part is meant as a companion to the book PureScript by Example. This section should be taken after the completion of "Up And Running" section. Contains two sections

1. Main Story Line - These topics need to be studied in the presented order (1 to 8).
2. Mini Adventures - These topics are important too but can be studied in any order and are usually much smaller than the ones in Main Story Line.