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!
AJ
Sep 23, 2019
As expected Martin is awesome in explaining principle of functional programming. I have started reading the book as well to make sure I keep up with the knowledge which I have gained from this course.
By Sta t B
•Aug 14, 2016
A good course but it could be better.
By Kyungnae L
•Aug 30, 2016
Content is not updated. Now is 2016.
By rajat k a
•Dec 19, 2021
It is good if know bit scala before
By Vlad B
•Jun 18, 2017
Great video, too abstract practice.
By Austin M
•Aug 5, 2017
Great material, pace is good too.
By Jordi R
•Mar 30, 2017
The learning curve is a bit steep
By Daniel S
•Apr 17, 2017
good class. I did learn a lot.
By Shubham S
•Jan 23, 2023
Recommended course for scala.
By Srinivasarao M
•Oct 16, 2019
Very Good explanatory Course
By Joaquín D R
•Aug 27, 2019
Basic Level in my opinion :D
By Gabriela
•Dec 7, 2016
Thank you! I learned a lot.
By Bogdan T
•Feb 5, 2017
Not all examples are right
By JayanthKumar K
•Jun 8, 2019
The Course was superbbb.
By Mahesh N
•Dec 1, 2017
Overall training is good
By Chen, L
•Jun 8, 2017
Good course! I love it!
By SyamalaRishithaSri
•Dec 10, 2019
very good expalanation
By Amin S
•Apr 18, 2017
quick intro to Scala
By Ngoc-Bien N
•Jan 14, 2019
A very good course
By Abdulhadi C
•Jul 24, 2016
Too mathematical.
By Alex S
•May 24, 2016
I am interest
By Andy X
•Sep 28, 2016
it was sweet
By Alexey G
•Oct 5, 2017
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By prashant b
•Nov 10, 2016
Excellent
By Andrew H
•Dec 25, 2016
This was a decent overview of FP principals, but a poor introduction to the Scala language. In fact, the requirements should just come out and state that you must have prior Scala knowledge to most thoroughly appreciate the course. The last 2 assignments may have been ok for 3 hours (doubtful) for someone with Scala experience, but they really should be marked more appropriately for time for those of us new to Scala. I'd say 6 hours; easily more than that for the last assignment.
Also, no slides or related handouts are provided. If you remember seeing something on one of the slides shown, you'll have to look back, scanning through all the videos trying to find it. This is a very poor way to manage course content - forcing students to rely solely on the videos.
I'm left feeling I've only learned a smattering here and there of Scala, and don't think I'll take the remainder of the specialization as I had intended.
By Geoffrey N
•Jun 29, 2016
This is a reasonably thorough introduction to the principals of functional programming in scala, but to fully grasp the material presented I found it necessary to include supplemental material such as the functional programming in scala book by Paul Chiusano (forward by the course instructor funnily enough). One point of frustration however was the near total unavailability of the course TA's or instructor. Also because the only forum for interacting with them is entirely public it's impossible to receive any formal code review apart from the automated tests they run when you submit. There were multiple occasions where I wanted feedback on not just the technical correctness of my solution but also to know if there might have been a more idiomatic or generally efficient (read: tail-recursive) way to express some peculiar bit of logic.