I am trying to get a learning center started in the Haskell
community. As pointed out below, MOOCs are hard to put together,
however training and videos straight forward. There is a lot of
teaching material available in the community. It is a matter of
finding, organizing and curating it.
I wrote a blog on an initiative we are trying to start within the
community. I have already gotten some course material contributions,
but we need a lot more.
The blog is on my personal site http://www.lebovitz.net/?p=30.
If anyone wants to help, please let me know.
Gregg
On 10/25/2012 9:26 AM, niket wrote:
The closest available is:
Thanks,
Niket
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:07 AM, David
McBride <toa...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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
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