another coursera class of interest

[Norman Richards]

Coursera is doing another FP class: https://class.coursera.org/proglang-2012-001/

I know several people went through the Scala FP class and enjoyed it.  This new one is using ML, Racket and Ruby in a multi-language approach.  Odd choices for sure, but judging by this first week I think it will be a fun ride.  There's still time to get in on the class, though the deadline for the first assignment is approaching rapidly.  

[Norman Richards]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Norman Richards <o...@nostacktrace.com> wrote:

Coursera is doing another FP class: https://class.coursera.org/proglang-2012-001/

I know several people went through the Scala FP class and enjoyed it.  This new one is using ML, Racket and Ruby in a multi-language approach.  Odd choices for sure, but judging by this first week I think it will be a fun ride.  There's still time to get in on the class, though the deadline for the first assignment is approaching rapidly.  

By the lack of response, I'll assume nobody else jumped in on the proglang class?   It's really, really good.  I have to say I'm enjoying it much more than the Scala class.  Anyway, if there are any lurkers out there, get in touch...

[Lynn Bender]

Thanks for sharing. I've been browsing the Coursera classes but haven't signed up for one yet.

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[John Cohorn]

I started into that one, but faded out because the first couple sections were going painfully slowly through basic concepts I'd recently seen. It looked great in concept though so  I'd like to pick it back up if my impending new job this month doesn't get the better of me.

This one looked like another good option: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1730/2012/Videos/

Be cool if a small group here was following these courses. Makes it a bit easier to stay motivated in keeping up.

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[Norman Richards]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:23 AM, John Cohorn <john....@gmail.com> wrote:

I started into that one, but faded out because the first couple sections were going painfully slowly through basic concepts I'd recently seen. It looked great in concept though so  I'd like to pick it back up if my impending new job this month doesn't get the better of me.

This one looked like another good option: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1730/2012/Videos

I think I'll start watching those today.  Thanks... :)

I thought the proglang class has been well-paced, but I can see how it might seem less than novel.  I'm enjoying giving ML a go, and I find the material pretty fresh after having read An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Functional-Programming-Calculus-Mathematics/dp/0486478831) last year to learn lambda calculus.  That book starts from lambda calculus and in the second half of the book develops some syntactic sugar that is largely ML.  In any case, I'm enjoying it...

I think the next coursera class that looks interesting is the general game playing class. (https://www.coursera.org/course/ggp)  It's not clear yet what the class will use, but it judging from the real-life class, it's likely there will be a good bit of prolog and lisp. Having worked on a Clojure core.logic app for the last month, I can definitely attest that logic programming + fp is a powerful combination.

[Robert Grant]

I joined after your email, though I've already missed a couple deadlines.  I'm enjoying it, but it's true that it's a little slow at first if you already know a bit about functional programming.

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Norman Richards <o...@nostacktrace.com> wrote:

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