VP
Sep 13, 2018
It took me much longer than expected to finish the course and sometimes it made me feel stupid and helpless. Diving into functional programming was a mind bending experience, totally worth time spent!
RS
Oct 8, 2016
Really good explanation by the instructor. Good assignments. The assignments gave a good insights into functional programming. I loved the way the problems were decomposed into neat smaller functions.
By Cazuya M
•Apr 18, 2022
This is a great lesson for me to study Scala and encourage its technology. And I find it a bit difficult to learn ...
If possible, I think it would be better to have an annotation "which files need to be selected and worked on" (maybe this is a given in the programming community)
By Deleted A
•Jun 19, 2017
Have a background in the subject before you take the class. I had to switch sessions because I had never taken a class in Functional Programming and found myself in over my head a few times. I really enjoyed the class once I had a better foundation in the concepts. Good Luck!
By Michael B
•Mar 5, 2017
A word from old time programmer: More basics, fewer complex problems.
More stress onto the language constructs, control structures, functions, control abstraction ... rather than .. figuring out algorithms without having basic understanding how things can be done in Scala.
By Menno d B
•Aug 3, 2020
The videos, especially the instructor, were very clear and very well-paced. The assignments were fun and challenging enough. The only improvement I could think of was the feedback provided by the auto-checking. Personally, I experienced trouble with this only in assignment 3.
By Marc V
•Dec 14, 2017
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.
By Daniel W
•Aug 22, 2020
Very precise and clear lectures with an emphasis on the structure of programs. I could only ask for a little more introduction to functional programming patterns for solving combinatorial problems, but working through the exercises will lead to that eventually anyway.
By Dimitri M
•Jan 2, 2022
When I attended the first Scala MOOC on Coursera by Mr. Odersky, I loved Scala immediately but back then I had no experience in functional programming. Now, thanks to my React experience and my study of Pytohn, I can fully appreciate what Scala 3 has to offer.
By Oliver K
•May 14, 2017
This is a really good course to learn functional programming in scala. I felt the homework assignments sometimes to hard, but this is likely due to my lack of functional programming experience. More advanced programmers would probably welcome these challenges.
By Ricardo C
•Jun 11, 2016
Specially on the last exercise, there is a bit of a distance between the classes and the challenges. Other than that, the course provides a very good introduction to functional programming at the same time as it introduce the scala language constructs and api.
By Kevin T
•Dec 18, 2016
El curso tiene muy buen contenido, y ejercicios que te ayudan acomprender las clases, sin embargo la estructura de las clases y ejercicios no es muy buena, pues algunos de los videos explican conceptos que se requerian para resolver alguna tarea anterior
By Claudio B
•Jun 17, 2017
This has been a really useful course focused on functional programming. I now feel like I understand a lot more about functional programming. The exercises are sometimes not completely clear but otherwise a great course from the very inventor of Scala.
By John M
•Feb 17, 2017
Not a gentle introduction. Often guilty of appropriating cool programming concepts for its own pedagogy, which often simply dilutes the core principles. Despite that - a generally well-structured course with thought-out (and challenging!) assignments.
By Sanket D
•Feb 1, 2017
Loved the course. Got to learn from basic the concepts of functional programming languages.
Good pace. Awesome level of assignments. Had to good time thinking the solution of the assignments.
Great way to learn a new language, thanks to the instructor.
By Borja B A
•Dec 3, 2016
Great teacher. With some issues. I found a little bit confusing the first week installing instructions with lots of data. But it improves.
Exercises are surprisingly elegant. Not easy but once you with the functional way of doing it simple.
By diego d
•Aug 4, 2017
Muy apropiado si sabes los principios de la programación funcional y tienes claros conceptos de programación. No se hacen muchas aclaraciones ni de sintaxis ni de semántica así que lo mejor es acompañar el curso con un manual de Scala.
By Chi-Chun C
•Aug 2, 2017
Somehow, it's not easy to solve the exercise.
It really train your brain as well as your Scala skill.
Overall, it is a good course.
If the exercise can have more guidance, such as where I can find the key concept , it will be better.
By Yiming H
•Jun 5, 2020
I have no prior experience of Scala or Java. The structure and content are very good but IMO the difficulty of the assignments is pretty high - usually require significantly MORE time than expected to complete and pass the test.
By Anton P
•Jun 10, 2016
Good materials and challenging programming exercises. Makes you think. However some material is old and some new, so little confusing. Especially when going through the materials about installing the development environment.
By Adam B
•Apr 16, 2017
The course is generally very good and met most of my learning objectives, but some of the assignments, particularly the last assignment, are more difficult than I would expect for an introduction to functional programming.
By Matthew C
•Jan 1, 2017
Well executed. The only difficulty that I had was when my assignments were not functioning well and had a hard time to understand what was wrong. A 10-minute video on tips on how to debug efficiently would have been great.
By Ankur D
•Feb 22, 2018
I would suggest before explaining if there is a basic overview of the pure mathematical concepts and then relating those with the functional programming would enhance the quality of the course. Overall it is very good.
By Bai S
•Aug 7, 2016
The content is great! But the rearrangement of lectures is not synced with intros at the beginning of some videos. I know it takes a lot of time and effort to make or alter a video. After all it doesn't affect much.
By Vatsal S
•Dec 14, 2016
A fantastic introduction to Scala Programming from the creator of Scala. The assignments are well designed and really test your grasp of the concepts. A good learning experience from an astounding professor.
By Thiemo M
•Oct 12, 2017
Excellent introduction into functional programming and Scala. It is pretty tough at first if you have no functional programming or Java background. But at the end of the course things started to make sense
By Maciej M
•May 12, 2020
I like the difficulty level of the course, however I feel like some of the assignments contain material that is much harder than what was covered in the lectures and require much more time than suggested.