Functional Programming Principles in Scala

Excellent, both theory and exercises Very nice introduction to functional programming in Scala.

Good introduction to Functional Programming concepts through scala.It will be interesting review the practices with other students in order to see other way to solve the challenges.Some of them put me at limit of my recursive programming.I go ahead with the next course.

Excellent introduction to Functional programming.

It was a very approachable yet deep introduction to functional programming.

Very practical and interesting introduction to functional programming.

This course is an excellent introduction to functional programming with a complete syllabus and good and clear lectures.

Wonderful introduction to functional programming very good course.

Extremely good introduction to functional programming.

Tough course which is a perfect introduction to functional programming and Scala.

This prof is godly Awesome class - highly recommended as an introduction to functional programming.

A very tough course, but great introduction to functional programming.

Great teacher and Great Tests A bit dry at times but overall a comprehensive introduction to functional programming in Scala.

as an engineer with most of an undergrad computer science degree and a few years' industry experience, I found this paper consistently challenging but fair throughout.

Just make sure you have some basic knowledge related to Computer Science.

Without any background in Computer Science it might be hard to follow all the lectures.

It introduces the language of Scala and is a great course for those who want to explore into the functional programming aspect of Computer Science.

It touches many topics of computer science.

I know how to program, but I explicitly note I am not a computer science student.

This is the first course I took on coursera connected to computer science which doesn't use standard coursera's quizzes.

I am BSc in Computer Science and MSc in Information Management with some working experience as a Software Engineer for Fortune-100 companies.

There constant bombardment with concepts from computer science and mathematics, which I normally not mind, but I want to learn Scala here and only Scala.

I am someone who had to struggle with the programming assignments and spent several hours on them because I do not come from a computer science / traditional programming background.

This is a remarkable course in which the creator of the Scala programming language not only teaches the language but also offers deep insights into the theory of programming and computer science.

This is my very first course on Coursera and thanks to their scholarship Program which make me enable to learning from world top faculty in the field of Computer Science.

Found it as an example of a top class form of material explanation, material itself is a nice preparation to a deep dive into functional world, highly recommended.

Highly recommended 10/10!

Fantastic course nonetheless, highly recommended.

Verdict: highly recommended.

Highly recommended!

Course by the Scala author, highly recommended.

HIghly recommended for newbie in functional programming and Java switchers Great course!

When I learned C++ I was presented similar data structures and algorithms that Professor Odersky used in his tutorial videos and exercises.

An amazingly deep dive for an intro course: covers generics, pattern matching, immutable data structures in lectures.

The assignments are a bit tough/abstract at first with the home-made data structures, but things get more grounded by the end.

Very good course love the way Martin has gone about covering the building blocks of Scala along with basic data structures.

It's not a beginner course, you need a solid understanding of recursion (which is all over the place), knowledge of some basic data structures might help too (e.g.

Scala's rich type system came in handy for the assignments -- once you've got the right idea for an approach, you just have to get the data structures to click (with some help from the compiler), and things just work!I appreciate that the assignments and examples were realistic.

Getting to implement Huffman Coding and basic data structures (functional and OO sets) helped me both appreciate the functional way to solve problems like these, and to understand the class of practical problems where similar solutions are applicable.Great course, and I'm excited for the next ones!

Excellent course for learning to write Scala code that strictly follows the functional programming paradigm and only uses immutable objects and data structures.If you just want to learn Scala quickly and don't care about functional programming, or need performance more than immutability, then this course might not be the best choice for you.

The other exercises are just hard, and there is not an easy exercise.This is an advanced course for people with solid bases on discrete mathematics, data structures, algorithms, software engineering, compilers, and operating systems.

The course is curated such that there is no requirement of prior expertise of other programming paradigms and data structures, however, knowledge of any OO-language would surely help you relate/compare and learn faster.

Задачки для домашней работы довольно сложные явно требуют 5-6 часов работы для людей у которых нет опыта в ФП This course is very challenging for those uninitiated in data structures and algorithms.

As someone with little formal CS background, this course was quite challenging due to the requirement of learning data structures and algorithms alongside functional programming.

The course was quite good all in all, and even though I'm already experienced with many of the aspects involved in software engineering in general and in functional programming in particular, I've followed it with much interest and gained some new perspectives.

Myself and a senior software engineer in my team are unable to get the example assignment to compile, this may be due to the version of sbt being so old that things are falling apart.

I've been a software engineer for more than 10 years, and I can't believe how much I am learning from this course, including subjects that I thought I already knew.

I would put it at graduate level material / experienced software engineer.

strongly recommended for software engineers who want to have good fundamentals about functional programming I learned a lot This course can crack you brain and it is awesome!

The contents of the course are very well presented and allow you to get familiar with the different way of thinking that functional programming provides.

Functional programming is a different way of thinking about programs.

Prof. Martin Odersky is may be not the best teacher I met, compared to Walter Lewin at MIT or Jim Fowler at Ohio State University, but the functional programming is a delightful subject and the assignments are fantastic.

I really enjoyed learning from first principles of functional programming in this class with Prof. Martin Odersky.

Prof. Martin Odersky has a real talent of discussing some entangled problems at hand.

I'd very much recommend this course to anyone interested on programming, as it teaches you, week by week, to think about your approach to a problem in a different and enlightening way.

Very difficult level, but a great challenge to anyone interested in functional programming Great course to start learning functional programming and scala Good material, but the lecture format was very dry and composed primarily of long videos.

This course was splitted in order to get more money, and we know it A fun adventure into functional programming in scala, I would recommend this course to anyone interested in programming in scala and functional programming in general.

Excellent course, must have for anyone interested in Scala !

Anyone interested should see Martin Odersky's YouTube talk "Working Hard to Keep It Simple."

My earlier experience with coding has only been from a statistician's point of view with fluency in Python and R. Material could have been better presented, but I guess, who cares when it's coming from the man who invented the language itself!

However, I had to unlearn them all and get the real feel of it in Martin's point of view.

I have started about 12 online courses on Coursera, edX and Udacity and completed 8 of them.

Definitely one of the best courses on Coursera and worth watching a 2nd, a 3rd time If the speaker was a bit more fluent in English, the course would be perfect.

This course is a little bit difficult to get started with if you do not have any code experience.

With a course completion diploma or without, the course is a great resource for people who want to get started with Scala or FP.

Great introduction to functional programming, and not just scala syntax :) Definitely the first entry point to learning Functional Programming Excellent course, explains many important things about functional and object oriented programming .

The course is moderately difficult if you have experience in Object Oriented Programming et probably very easy if you have functional programming experience.

I have lot of experience on object oriented programming and software architecture in general.

So many new concepts for those coming from Object oriented programming.