I'm taking it primarily because it is taught by the guy who made the language. I mean how cool is that? He is very smart and certainly blows any other lecturer I've ever had out of the water. If SPJ were doing a haskell course I'd sign up for that too in a heart beat.
There's also a slim possibility that coursera will become something industry people can look at to find people with skills they need. A nice perk if it works out, for something I'm doing for fun anyways. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Eric Rasmussen <ericrasmus...@gmail.com>wrote: > I can see that the required effort would be prohibitive, but after > thinking about this some more I do think there are a couple of nice > advantages: > > 1) Quizzes and graded assignments offer some structure to self study, and > having some form of feedback/validation when you first get started is > helpful. I learned a lot of Haskell by making up my own assignments, but > not everyone is willing to put that kind of time into it. > > 2) I know several developers with great engineering skills who are taking > the Scala course because it gives them a structured way to get into it and > have something to show for the time on their resume. They're busy > professionals whose skills and expertise in large projects could really > benefit the Haskell community, but I've had no luck convincing them that > it's worth the time spent researching and learning on their own. > > Scala already has some appeal for them if they have to work with java code > or have spent years with object oriented programming, so I think the more > the Haskell community can do to bring them here, the better. > > Whether or not it's feasible to create the course is another issue. I > don't have an academic background or any academic affiliations to get the > ball rolling, but if anyone wants to make a course I'll volunteer to help > proof materials, test quizzes and assignments, and work on utilities to > submit and grade assignments. > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Brent Yorgey <byor...@seas.upenn.edu>wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:49:08PM +0530, niket wrote: >> > I am a novice in Haskell but I would love to see the gurus out here >> > teaching Haskell on MOOCs like Coursera or Udacity. >> > >> > Dr Martin Odersky is doing it for Scala here: >> > https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun >> > >> > I would love to see Haskell growing on such new platforms! >> >> Just as a counterpoint, putting together a MOOC is a *ton* of work, >> with (in my opinion) not much benefit for a topic like Haskell where >> it is already possible to access lots of quality instructional >> materials online. I would rather see Haskell gurus put their time and >> effort into producing more awesome code (or into curating existing >> instructional materials). >> >> Just my 2c. >> >> -Brent >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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