Haskell Tutorial by Conrad Barski, M.D.
From the post:
There’s other tutorials out there, but you’ll like this one the best for sure: You can just cut and paste the code from this tutorial bit by bit, and in the process, your new program will create magically create more and more cool graphics along the way… The final program will have less than 100 lines of Haskell[1] and will organize a mass picnic in an arbitrarily-shaped public park map and will print pretty pictures showing where everyone should sit! (Here’s what the final product will look like, if you’re curious…)
The code in this tutorial is a simplified version of the code I’m using to organize flash mob picnics for my art project, picnicmob… Be sure to check out the site and sign up if you live in one of the cities we’re starting off with 🙂
Could be a model for a topic maps tutorial. On the technical parts.
Sam Hunting mentioned quite recently that topic maps lacks the equivalent of nsgmls.
A command line app that takes input and gives you back output.
Doesn’t have to be a command line app but certainly should support cut-n-paste with predictable results.
Which is how most people learn HTML.
Something to keep in mind.