Category theory for beginners by Ken Scrambler
From the post:
Explains the basic concepts of Category Theory, useful terminology to help understand the literature, and why it’s so relevant to software engineering.
Some two hundred and nine (209) slides, ending with pointers to other resources.
I would have dearly loved to see the presentation live!
This slide deck comes as close as any I have seen to teaching category theory as you would a natural language. Not too close but closer than others.
Think about it. When you entered school did the teacher begin with the terminology of grammar and how rules of grammar fit together?
Or, did the teacher start you off with “See Jack run.” or its equivalent in your language?
You were well on your way to being a competent language user before you were tasked with learning the rules for that language.
Interesting that the exact opposite approach is taken with category theory and so many topics related to computer science.
Pointers to anyone using a natural language teaching approach for category theory or CS material?