he he. Coming from many years of ‘Java Enterprise Applications’ (e.g. Spring, Hibernate and if you were feeling adventurous maybe free marker instead of JSP - ooooh.) this was a wonderful breath of fresh air for me. https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang looks great as well.
> On 9 Oct 2015, at 01:19, Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org> wrote: > > On 10/8/15, 1:32 PM, "Colin Yates" <clojure@googlegroups.com on behalf of > colin.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> This is a great course. I still get a bit green with envy when I recall the >> workbook capabilities in Eclipse. Another recommendation for Brian Marick’s >> OO to FP book. > > Ah, just realized this is Odersky’s course which is not what I was thinking > of! I really did NOT enjoy the progfun course. I found the exercises boring > and I found Scala itself fussy and annoying (and I _hate_ Eclipse!). And this > is from someone who did Scala in production for about 18 months before > switching to Clojure in 2011! > > The course I was thinking of, which I praised so highly was actually this one: > > https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang > > Programming Languages, University of Washington, Professor Dan Grossman. > > That’s the one I enjoyed so much I took it three times! > > It starts out with Standard ML to teach you about statically typed FP, then > it moves on to Racket to teach you about dynamically typed FP, then it wraps > up with Ruby to look at how dynamically typed OOP contrasts with the two FP > approaches. > > Sean > >> >>> On 8 Oct 2015, at 21:00, Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/8/15, 12:45 PM, "Raoul Duke" <clojure@googlegroups.com on behalf of >>> rao...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> i did this one a while back as a refresher on my university stuff :-) >>>> https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun >>> >>> I’ll second this as a great recommendation. I first took the course several >>> years ago and I’ve taken it twice since as a Community TA — that’s how much >>> I like that course! :) >>> >>> It is switching from scheduled to on-demand so it won’t be available for a >>> while yet, but then folks will be able to take it whenever they want, at >>> their own speed. >>> >>> Sean > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
