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I would love to hear from someone who took (and completed) this class with no prior experience in Scala or FP.
I review the course in more depth at http://bigscary.com/2013/02/27/functional-programming-in-sca...
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I wasn't a fan of the course. For context, I've got a lot of experience in FP, but no experience in Scala. I took the course hoping to learn Scala. The course didn't teach me Scala. I suppose if I was an FP beginner, I would have learned something, but not much. It had about the same depth in FP as my college Programming Languages course, except that course also covered a ton of other topics. Part of how dissatisfied…
There was very little content or you already knew fp so you didn't learn much?
I would love to hear from someone who took (and completed) this class with no prior experience in Scala or FP.
I would love to hear from someone who took (and completed) this class with no prior experience in Scala or FP.
I also fit your criteria. I learned a lot, however I would say I didn't really "get" functional programming until after reading some more books and taking a different course that emphasized functional programming. In this course, I was trying to write imperative programs just as much as I could. However, without this course as a foundation, I doubt my other reading (and the other course I took) would have been as val…
A great excuse to learn Scala. A serviceable introduction to functional programming. Middle of the road in quality relative to other computing coursrs on Coursera I've taken. Work load toward the lighter end for a Coursera course focused on programming [among those I've taken]. Use of IDE encouraged. Use of SBT required.
Of note: assignment structure and IDE encourage and facilitate testing practices. Also for a later iteration of a programming course the discussion forum is very active.
I've been a developer for 10+ years but have been ignorant to FP. It just opened my eyes a little bit.