Re: MOOC course on Programming Languages taught by Dan Grossman

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 22:21:46 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

I took the first edition of this class, and it was the best 
MOOC I've taken (probably the only one for which I actually 
made it to the end). He is one of the few that does well with 
the format.


Ditto. It was a great class.



Note the statement "with a strong emphasis on functional 
programming" - as I recall, it was mostly a functional 
programming class, as you'd expect when the first two languages 
are Standard ML and Racket. Highly recommended for anyone that 
wants to go reasonably deep into functional programming. It's 
definitely NOT a beginning programming course.


The functional aspect was the reason I took it. It was fun 
playing around with ML and Racket and I got lot out of it.

Re: MOOC course on Programming Languages taught by Dan Grossman

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 20:47:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
Dan Grossman, an exceptionally accomplished PL researcher from 
University of Washington, is teaching a MOOC on Coursera. The 
class starts on July 25 and is free unless you want 
accreditation. Highly recommended.


https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages


Andrei


I took the first edition of this class, and it was the best MOOC 
I've taken (probably the only one for which I actually made it to 
the end). He is one of the few that does well with the format.


Note the statement "with a strong emphasis on functional 
programming" - as I recall, it was mostly a functional 
programming class, as you'd expect when the first two languages 
are Standard ML and Racket. Highly recommended for anyone that 
wants to go reasonably deep into functional programming. It's 
definitely NOT a beginning programming course.