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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Functional Programming Principles in Scala by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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    About the Course

    Functional programming is becoming increasingly widespread in industry. This trend is driven by the adoption of Scala as the main
    programming language for many applications. Scala fuses functional and object-oriented programming in a practical package. It interoperates
    seamlessly with both Java and Javascript. Scala is the implementation language of many important frameworks, including Apache Spark, Kafka,
    and Akka. It provides the core infrastructure for sites such as Twitter, Netflix, Zalando, and also Coursera. In this course, you will discover the
    elements of the functional programming style and learn how to apply them usefully in your daily programming tasks, such as...
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    VP

    Sep 14, 2018

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    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!

    GS

    Sep 18, 2022

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    The course is v​ery well structured and explained, I enjoyed and learned a lot. At least for me, I needed way more time for understanding the theory and completing the exercises than what estimated.

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    By Suresh T

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    Jan 27, 2018

    The course gave an excellent exposure to the really core aspects of functional programming. The assignments were very interesting and challenging. The pace and clarity of delivery was very conducive to learning this subject.

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    By Mr T

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    Aug 13, 2016

    A lot of new information (Pattern Matching, Variance, Call-by-value & Call-by-name strategies) that was presented in structural and stimulating way. Also challenging and exciting assignments that always keep you in a loop.

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    By Andrew G

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    Jun 23, 2016

    A great insight into both functional programming as well as Scala by the man himself. Don't be fooled though and don't take this course lightly as you have to put serious effort in it -- but you'll be rewarded accordingly.

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    By marco s

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    Nov 15, 2017

    Excellent introduction to Functional programming. If you're new to this paradigm, Scala is the perfect language to start, because combines OOP and Functional programming, making the learning process scalable and friendly.

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    By Sangdeok P

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    Mar 1, 2020

    I got a basic understanding of Scala and the intention of the founder, and I also got application example through not easy assignment. I am not a expert even I closed this course, but I am better than before

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    By Francesc L

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    Aug 23, 2019

    Great course, but I think it's a bit difficult to put your attention on functional programming itself when there are so many math examples and not trivial algorythms. Anyway, I enjoyed it and looking forward the next one

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    By Kostiantyn K

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    Aug 29, 2016

    The course is worth learning. It is interesting and challenging. Even though I needed more time than one session to complete the course because of some of the assignments, I don't think that they should be made easier.

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    By Eran B

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    Jul 22, 2016

    I really enjoyed the course, even though some of the concepts were quite familiar as a CS graduate student. Prof Martin Ordesky goes to fine details, which make the Scala big picture much clearer.

    Definitely recommended.

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    By Cristian G L

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    Aug 10, 2020

    This is an amazing course given by one of Scala's authors. So many new concepts for those coming from Object oriented programming. It is a new world where some applications can be coded in a few lines of pure functions.

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    By Pravin M

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    Mar 23, 2019

    It is "the best course" to start understanding functional programming and get ur feet wet with scala.I really loved the way in which concepts have been explained , it has really helped in writing code in functional way.

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    By Ibrahim M

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    Jun 6, 2020

    Great Start in functional programming. It tackles a lot of the main concepts of functional programming. The way I was taught Scala in this course showed me how to leverage both FP and OOP to solve problems efficiently.

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    By Sergey G

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    Apr 8, 2020

    Really great course. Martin explains the material with passion and in detail. Learning functional programming was a lot of fun, because it enforces you to adjust your approach based on experienced with other languages.

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    By Fred N

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    Sep 2, 2017

    Excellent course. I always wanted to know more about functional programming and this was an awesome introduction. All of the examples are very well chosen. I found the assignments to be challenging but I enjoyed it.

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    By Paul B

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    Mar 4, 2017

    An amazingly deep dive for an intro course: covers generics, pattern matching, immutable data structures in lectures. Week 3 had some issues with the grader robot and exponential run times if you wrote some bad code.

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    By Bogdan F

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    May 24, 2020

    Прошел курс со 2 попытки. Если вы пришли сюда за знаниям скалы - вы их особо не получите.

    Курс больше о ФП. Задачки для домашней работы довольно сложные явно требуют 5-6 часов работы для людей у которых нет опыта в ФП

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    By Ashok

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    Jun 17, 2018

    Wonderful course.. Gave me good insight in to functional programming paradigm.. Assignments are well created to apply the right thought process. I will recommend this course for any newbie to functional programming.

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    By Yihan S

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    Jun 4, 2017

    It's more focus on the functional programming rather Scala programming language itself, but nevertheless it's fascinate to switch the mindset from one to another and think about the a totally different perspectives.

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    By Matthias R

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    Dec 21, 2016

    very clear, informative, thought through course in functional programming. This course gives additionally to the programming of Scala a background and up-to-date view on functional programming topics and objectives

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    By Nicolas B

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    Jul 17, 2020

    Cours très formateur. Les explications de Martin Odersky sont très claires (il faut néanmoins un niveau d'Anglais correct pour suivre ce cours) Je recommande vivement à tous ceux qui souhaitent apprendre le Scala!

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    By Peter M

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    Nov 28, 2016

    Excellent course for Scala, if you want learn the functional programming. In some parts of the course was difficult to understand the math explanations (long ago out of the University). But i recommend the course.

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    By Jon W

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    Oct 25, 2016

    An excellent and well-structured course. The exercises are challenging and interesting. The instructor combines in depth technical knowledge with the ability to explain things very well, which I've found is rare.

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    By maxime R

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    Jun 28, 2021

    Un cours très intéressant, avec beau d'exemple tout au long du parcours qui permettent d'assimiler au mieux les concepts. Des exercices finaux très complets qui permettent de s'assurer de la bonne compréhension.

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    By David F

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    Sep 4, 2018

    This is a great introduction to functional programming principles and Scala. By the end of the course, students can expect to have a good handle of Scala collections and how they work in the functional paradigm.

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    By 심재문

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    May 5, 2017

    I know how to use scala collection and functional programming unclearly.

    This course help me to understand functional programing theory and so on.

    But, I still don't know about principle of Collections.flatmap ...

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    By Кузнецов Н В

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    May 23, 2017

    Amazing intro to Scala! However I think that assignments may be more... practical (i.e. related more to some real-life tasks maybe) and concentrated on core concepts, not on dealing with Huffman coding trees :D

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