me too. erika
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Walter Prins <wpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > Count me in as well (I think.) > > On 27 December 2014 at 13:32, Harry Percival <harry.perci...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Am enticed by this: >> >> *"you should like solving puzzles. An appreciation for early-90's MTV >> hip-hop can't hurt either."* >> >> And this: >> >> >> >> *"Our friend Maciej says these challenges are a good way to learn a new >> language, so maybe now's the time to pick up Clojure or Rust."* >> Dying to learn Clojure yo. >> > > > To whoever mentioned Rust: thanks for mentioning it -- hadn't heard of it > before and spent quite a bit of time reading about it last night... seems > very interesting! > > Re SICP/functional -- very much agree Harry. (Keep feeling/hearing the > siren call of functional programming lately...) I'd like to add that > there's a course on Coursera that uses Scala as the teaching language and > that uses SICP (amongst one or 2 others) as reference: > https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun I expect it should run again in > April or so and am intending to sit it when it's up next, would be nice to > have someone else from a known context do it as well so one could likewise > discuss things etc. (Maybe one could attempt the assignments in this > course in both Scala & Clojure to enhance the learning experience.) > > Anyway, hope you've all had a very good Christmas and wishing you all the > best for the new year! > > Walter > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > >
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