Programming Languages, Part A

The course gives an interesting overview of Standard ML and introduction to functional programming.

It's a very thorough introduction to functional programming and language design.

An interesting introduction to functional programming.

Looking forward to part B and C. Fantastic course providing not only a great introduction to Functional Programming fundamentals, but also leading on to how languages relate to one another.

The best introduction to functional programming I've seen.

Excellent overview of SML and great introduction to functional programming concepts.

It give us a good, full and profound introduction to functional programming.

Solid introduction to functional programming and programming languages concepts.

good introduction to functional programming .

i thoroughly enjoyed the course, the instructor was very good and made the whole experience fun Great introduction to functional programming!I'm a somewhat experienced developer (10 years of work experience) and my interest in functional programing started with Scala development using Spark.

Great introduction to functional programming, especially for folks with an OOP background.

I just LOVE this course It is such a great course that offered in Mooc platform A fascinating and brilliantly put together course, but highly demanding.A little more guidance on some of the challenging homework would have been welcomed, but in terms of the lecture quality, course structure, and materials provided, this is a superb introduction to Functional Programming and a great theoretical guide to programming meta-concepts in general.

Highly recommend for anyone who hasn't made any study of programming languages before, whether you are a student or professional.

It was quite some exciting moments of (re)discovery, finding out about ideas that translate from one language to another.I highly recommend this course to anyone who aspire to become better programmers.

Would highly recommend!

highly recommend to anyone who'd like a deeper understanding of programming.

Highly recommended.

I would highly recommend this course to anyone wishing to broaden their programming skill set.

Highly recommend if you are interested in foundations of functional programming or programming languages generally.

Highly recommend this course to people who'd like to understand the principles of programming language.

Before commencing I highly recommend you can program in one of Java/C#/C++/C (JS/Python alone are not enough imo) and understand basics of data structures up to using recursion on binary trees (no need for graphs and beyond).

If you have that down, I highly recommend enrolling.

Looking forward further courses from Dan!

I'm looking forward to taking parts B and C. Thank you for a fun and enjoyable class.

Looking forward to those too.

I'm definitely looking forward to parts B and C!

Really expanded the way I think about programming and I'm looking forward to parts B and C. A challenging rewarding course, a must-have for aspiring programmers.

I'm looking forward to part B!

I am looking forward to parts B and C!

Best programming course I have ever taken in person or online.

Maybe the best course I've ever taken in my whole life.

One of the best course I have ever taken.

This is one of the best courses that I have ever taken before!

Probably the best MOOC I've ever taken Muy buena información; nivel alto.

I feel compelled to say that this is one of the best courses I have ever taken and Dan Grossman is the best instructor I have ever had.

A brilliant first part to this 3 part programming language course.Part A focuses on teaching Functional Programming concepts using ML, a programming language that is becoming more relevant today with the popularity increase in the Haskell and F# languages, both based on ML.Dan is excellent on the videos, explaining the core concepts extremely well, while also doing a great job with the live coding (a really hard thing to do, even for a software engineer with 10 years of experience).Everyone on the discussion forums, the TA's, the Admins and Dan, are really great, and compliment the video lectures well.Overall really happy with the course and can't wait to get started on Parts B and C. I learnt a lot from this course.

Everything is free to access so really learnt a lot from the homework and the exam.

Also got a great motivation :) And, I hope I became a better programmer than I was :) I will be glad to continue my studies in Part B While the trend has been to spread out course content into specializations, these courses, the Programming Languages series, actually contain enough content to merit being a course.

But the resources are great and there's plenty of cool activities, this definitely made me a better programmer and I tried to make some things with haskell after I finishing this, and this course definitely made things easier.

You'll learn a lot about functional programming and learn how to apply those concepts to make you a better programmer.

A slightly more practical benefit is that this course makes one a better programmer, regardless of the choice of programming language.

I found an online version of standard ML but it isn't suited to doing the homeworks.

I found Standard ML really enjoyable to work with and appreciated the focus of the course material.

This material focus on the Standard ML language (which you probably won't use for any practical purpose later) but is a very good foundation to understand other languages in the ML family, like F# and it has influenced Haskel and Elm (check the Wiki for "ML (programming language)").

Even though I'm a Computer Science student at a University already, the rigor in this course surprised me, and comparing it with the course webpage on UWashington's offering (also by Professor Grossman) makes me think this MOOC was not watered down from the CS major, real-life version, as promised.

Huge points go to Professor Grossman again for putting this course together, and all the course contributors as well.

Professor Grossman does an outstanding job explaining things from basic principles and building up to larger concepts.