IMO, one of the hardest things about teaching Haskell is figuring out 
which order to explain things in. The "things" are all very simple, but 
each "thing" is related to half a dozen other "things" in such a way 
that it's very awkward to figure out exactly where to start.

Chapter 1 began well, but Chapter 2 seems to be getting a bit lost. They 
give an example of how to use if/then/else, but it's a recursive 
example, so then they start on this tangent explaining about recursion, 
but in the middle they throw in strict vs lazy evaluation orders and 
start talking about thunks... woah, woah! Slow down there! One concept 
at a time, people. o_O

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