Haskell from the Very Beginning will appeal both to new programmers, and to experienced programmers eager to explore functional languages such as Haskell. It is suitable both for formal use within an undergraduate or graduate curriculum, and for the interested amateur.
John Whitington founded a company which sells software for document processing. He taught functional programming to students of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. His other books include the textbooks PDF Explained (O'Reilly, 2012) and OCaml from the Very Beginning (Coherent, 2013), and the Popular Science book A Machine Made this Book: Ten Sketches of Computer Science (Coherent, 2016).