Learner Reviews & Feedback for Functional Programming Principles in Scala by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
About the Course
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...
Top reviews
VP
Sep 14, 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 9, 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.
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By Alexandre d S
•Feb 7, 2019
Almost finishing and I can see the course is really iterative and the teacher is really high level.
By Ariel P
•Jul 23, 2017
Very good course going from OOP to Functional, the programming assignments were fun and challenging
By Sławomir W
•Jun 7, 2017
Really great course. Good balance between theory and practice. Ingenious and demanding assignments.
By Tony A
•Oct 12, 2016
Thank you for all ! interesting courses that gives me an interesting view of functional programming
By Alberto B
•Jun 24, 2016
Excellent course, explains many important things about functional and object oriented programming .
By Pravina S M
•Aug 6, 2018
Great course for Scala beginners in terms of lucid course contents and well organised assignments!
By Oleksandr M
•May 30, 2017
Great course, good highlight of functional programming basics and interesting assignments as well.
By Javier S
•Jan 27, 2017
Thank you Mr. Martin Odersky for this course and of course for this awesome Language and community
By cai x
•Jan 8, 2017
Great Course on Scala. The instruction is clear and assignments are well designed and challenging.
By Jiacheng L
•Nov 21, 2021
Fancy course from Mr Odersky ! It really brings me to a brand new world of functional programming
By Pedro R
•Feb 22, 2019
Very well structured. Interesting and not too easy assignments. It was a pleasure to participate.
By Deshbandhu M
•Jul 24, 2018
It's a great course.. I love this to complete this. very nice and satisfying experience with this
By Timo S
•Oct 9, 2017
Very interesting course that is well lectured and, additionally, the assignments are lots of fun!
By Andrzej J
•Apr 22, 2017
Great course. The exercises are more interesting than in previous edition.
Very good for beginners
By Sakib H
•Aug 28, 2016
Great course with very interesting and mind-challenging tasks. Also a nice intro to Scala basics.
By Ankit
•Dec 29, 2021
This is a CS level undergrad course taught extremely well with meaningful psets and autograding!
By Rajeswari
•Aug 5, 2018
This course lecture is amazing. He taught really well. The assignments are challenging and good.
By Emil H
•Jan 16, 2018
Challenging, and what isn't covered in the lectures is usually covered in the discussion forums.
By David P
•Dec 20, 2016
Just a really awesome course for anyone looking for an introduction to functional programming...
By Pablo F M
•Jul 16, 2016
Really well planned course. You will learn functional programming principles.. and thats a lot!
By Lluis T
•Dec 27, 2023
The best Programming course I've ever done. Well guided, and it really deeps into the knowledge
By AOC
•Jul 2, 2019
This course a must for a new programmer in Scala and experts that are new to Scala programming.
By Gal E
•May 2, 2020
Very well explained, going deep into subjects and assignments are well designed to wrap it up.
By Малышев И И
•Jan 15, 2019
It is very good course for understanding the main scala principles and functional programming.
By EZZERG A
•Jul 21, 2017
Very good as an introduction to the language. The different concepts are very well explained.