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Online learning with Haskell: the Mongolia Class of 2020

Reminiscing on the delivery of the first Haskell massive online course (MOOC)

21 December 2020 Alejandro Garcia 7 mins read

Online learning with Haskell: the Mongolia Class of 2020

Here we share feedback on this year's Haskell course which we delivered online for the first time.

Saying that the Covid-19 pandemic changed the world's plans is a cliché at this point, and the same thing happened to us here at IOG’s Education department. However, what we did not expect were the new opportunities that the global lockdown opened up for us which enabled us to…

Secure smart contracts with the Plutus ebook

Q&A with the IOHK Education team authors

31 July 2019 Alejandro Garcia 6 mins read

Secure smart contracts with the Plutus ebook

The IOHK education team this month released the first edition of their new Plutus ebook: Plutus: Writing reliable smart contracts. Available on Amazon and LeanPub, it's a comprehensive introductory guide to Plutus, IOHK's Haskell-based smart contract language. Haskell is a functional programming language, which means it's easier to test and less prone to human error, so…