# Brent Yorgey

In today’s episode, we’re joined by Brent Yorgey, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Hendrix College and the creator, among other things, of the Diagrams vector graphics library and Swarm, a 2D programming and resource gathering game. We talk about teaching, domain specific languages, and c…

Brent Yorgey is a professor of math and CS at Hendrix College. He studys functional programming in Haskell, type systems, and category theory, and more. He is the creator of the diagrams vector graphics Haskell library. He taught Introduction to Haskell and The Art of Recursion at the University of…

Online resources mentioned in the episode for learning Haskell: How to Learn Haskell - Chris Allen CIS 194 - Brent Yorgey Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! LambdaHack is a framework for Roguelike games. Books about Haskell: Haskell Programming from First Principles - Chris Allen Algeb…

Brent Yorgey explains the motivation and purpose of his Diagrams library and how it relates to other programmatic graphics systems like TikZ. He then shares his motivation for writing the Typeclassopedia and his thoughts on how much category theory Haskell programmers need to know. He also shares s…