There's a new Haskell book coming written by well known people in the Haskell community: Real World Haskell (http://www.realworldhaskell.org/ http://www.realwor

There's a new Haskell book coming written by well known people in the Haskell community: Real World Haskell (http://www.realworldhaskell.org/ http://www.realworldhaskell.org/). I would advice to read a few tutorials on the net first to get a feeling of the language. Download GHC and experiment with GHCi. When you hit a roadblock (which definitely will come because functional programming is different) leave it for some time and do other programming and perhaps think about how you would do it in a functional language. Just take small steps.