For my fellow italians, I wrote a free "Introduction to functional programming" PDF, check out https://github.com/gcanti/functional-programming
Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
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Re: Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
#12Dr. Booleans guide is excellent. Another nice intro to functional programming using JavaScript is Kyle Simpsons functional lite:https://github.com/getify/Functional-Light-JS/blob/master/RE...
Kyle wrote the You Don't Know JS series. This book is just as good.
Re: Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
#13For my fellow italians, I wrote a free "Introduction to functional programming" PDF, check out https://github.com/gcanti/functional-programming
Is there an English translation?
Re: Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I completely understand that it could be more difficult for non-native speakers to understand. It's been sped up to match the cartoon style characters that he uses, and presumably for information density. I personally really enjoyed it, even if I did have to frequently pause the videos to recap something he had just said.
See, isn't it a negative point for you, that you have to stop and revert the video to an earlier point frequently because of this. As someone who has learned a lot through video guides (which are my favorite medium to learn, other than just reading the docs), I think that talking slowly through complex problems is the better way to go, even if that means, the video will be longer.
Tbh not really, I often stop to investigate stuff anyway. I personally prefer to have it at my pace and under my control than listen through someone laboriously explain something I know in great detail.
But this is the great thing about the internet - there's so much information on how to make more of it, you'll definitely be able to find videos which are more to your taste.
I recently watched Andrew Van Slaars series on the Maybe type: https://egghead.io/courses/safer-javascript-with-the-maybe-t... - that was much more traditional and slower paced, and still very good. Maybe give that a shot if you found the Frisby stuff too frenetic.
Re: Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's with this modern internet culture of calling everything "terrible" or "garbage" because it has some defects, even subjective ones? I've watched this gradual change in the users of my own forum I started over 10 years ago. People with no skin in the game think so highly of their opinion that they use it to discredit and dismiss something as terrible garbage. Seems related to the rise of self-entitlement culture…
In my opinion it's more related to the fact, that people are actually creating very good content, so if somebody pushes something that is way under that value, you recognize and move away from it. I've watched tutorials on functional programming that took themselves seriously and used a normal, human voice to bring their point across and sorry, I consider those a lot better than this.
But notice that you didn't link to any nor provide anything beyond "Actually the course on Egghead is terrible" when someone else added value to the world by linking to the free video courses.
Imagine if your approach, instead of knee-jerk negativity and dismissal, was to enumerate those videos you thought were better if your intention was actually to communicate that you've seen better ones. That would've been a great contribution.
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#16Actually the course on Egghead is terrible. The voice that is used to comment on the video is very badly recorded and I have no idea why they chose that voice for a serious video for adults. Edit: Also fine to not have my opinion on this, but a lot of people shared my opinion, check the Egghead comment section. I would've loved to watch that video, with a more professional voice and walkthrough.
What's with this modern internet culture of calling everything "terrible" or "garbage" because it has some defects, even subjective ones? I've watched this gradual change in the users of my own forum I started over 10 years ago. People with no skin in the game think so highly of their opinion that they use it to discredit and dismiss something as terrible garbage. Seems related to the rise of self-entitlement culture…
I know... it really bothers me how everything becomes a binary evaluation. Something not to your taste isn't objectively terrible, it's just not to your taste. I think it's a symptom of youth and a lack of perspective - I was so much worse with that back when I was a teenager.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's with this modern internet culture of calling everything "terrible" or "garbage" because it has some defects, even subjective ones? I've watched this gradual change in the users of my own forum I started over 10 years ago. People with no skin in the game think so highly of their opinion that they use it to discredit and dismiss something as terrible garbage. Seems related to the rise of self-entitlement culture…
I know... it really bothers me how everything becomes a binary evaluation. Something not to your taste isn't objectively terrible, it's just not to your taste. I think it's a symptom of youth and a lack of perspective - I was so much worse with that back when I was a teenager.
Absolutely.
The internet has made it so easy to share negativity or whatever opinion you're able to belt out from the hip that people mistake that for the need to do it. "What, I can't have an opinion, now?" It's almost comical how toxic Youtube and Facebook comments are for this reason.
But I also think there's some element of human nature where you see someone having fun and feel the need to snipe them with something negative. I remember a lot of that from my childhood.
I'll never forget in Boy Scouts when we were climbing down some boulders and one of my mates decided to jump down each boulder instead of climbing down. He was soon sniped with "Quit trying to be cool, Jacob" which put him in line, climbing down like the rest of us.
Not to double down so hard on a fellow HNer, but it reminds me of that:
- Person A: "Here's a link to their free video course."
- Person B: "Those videos are terrible, Jacob. Edit: What, I have opinions, too."
Re: Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
#18Excellent book. Although it says 2015 in the title it's still actively being worked on.
Re: Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
#19I spent about 30 minutes reading, but I didnt understand why this has 140 points and is the top thread.
Can anyone explain?
Re: Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
#20Actually the course on Egghead is terrible. The voice that is used to comment on the video is very badly recorded and I have no idea why they chose that voice for a serious video for adults. Edit: Also fine to not have my opinion on this, but a lot of people shared my opinion, check the Egghead comment section. I would've loved to watch that video, with a more professional voice and walkthrough.
I _love_ the videos on the Professor Frisbee Egghead course.
I learned a lot from the course content and the classroom stop-motion animations were refreshing; it kept me watching with a smile on my face.
It's nice to have some personality and silliness in an online classroom environment; very little differentiates the various JS teaching sites other than their media players and subject matter coverage right now.
Daniel Shiffman's unique style also breaks the “person tonelessly narrating to occasional cursor movements over a screencap” standard that lots of online courses have settled into, and is similarly engaging as a result: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw