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Principles of Reactive Programming
- eranation 13y agoThis is a follow on course to Functioal Programming with Scala, and led by Martin Odersky, Erik Meijer and Roland Kuhn. Signed up
- sinkasapa 13y agoI think this course looks like it could be a lot of fun. Erik Meijer is a great teacher with lots of enthusiasm. The introductory video makes it look like we just walked in on a particularly awkward moment, though, like they set the bench they're all sitting on down in a suspiciously bad smelling elevator car. If you haven't see Erik Meijer's haskell course and are interested in that type of thing, check it out: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3642 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3642 It uses this really great book by Graham Hutton called Programming in Haskell.
- jskonhovd 13y agoSigned Up!! The Functional Programming with Scala Course was very good.
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- arityfn 13y agoThis is the most awkward introduction video Ive seen so far. I really enjoyed Erik's introductory course on haskell so really looking forward to this course.
- modersky 13y agoYes, sorry for the video :-) We had just 1 hour in the same place together, and that was in a hotel conference room and we were all tired from our respective conferences. We'll shoot another one when we meet next and will replace the video then.
- arityfn 13y agoCool, I got a response from Martin Odersky. I really enjoyed your course on scala :) so looking forward to this one.
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- essentials 13y agoI haven't taken Odersky's first course, but I'm fluent in Java and Clojure. Do you guys think that would suffice or will Scala knowledge be a prerequisite?
- arityfn 13y agoIt starts in two months so could give Martins books a read. And I think that would be enough. Some of the lectures were based on his book and others on SICP.
- eranation 13y agoThe prerequisite course starts in about 2 weeks [1], so you can still take it if you want before Principles of Reactive Programming starts, you'll be able to see what parts you feel you can skip and which ones are useful. There are other quick introductions to Scala you can take [2],[3],[4] to get a feeling of it. [1] https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun [2] http://www.scala-tour.com http://www.scala-tour.com [3] http://scalatutorials.com/tour http://scalatutorials.com/tour [4] http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/scala http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/scala
- oacgnol 13y agoIf you're well versed in Clojure and FP principles, the only difference for you would be in picking up Scala syntax, in my opinion.
- Fishkins 13y agoI'd say the type system is a non-negligible difference. Still, knowing Java and Clojure is a good foundation for learning Scala.
- tokipin 13y agoyou won't have trouble. that said, the first Scala course is excellent independent of its use of Scala because of its fun/challenging homework assignments
- joshz 13y agoTypesafe also just announced a tutoring program for this and the intro course. http://typesafe.com/blog/announcing_typesafe_new_coursera_tutoring_program http://typesafe.com/blog/announcing_typesafe_new_coursera_tu...
- zura 13y agoHm, did Erik left Microsoft for Applied Duality, Inc. ?
- Qerub 13y agohttp://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Erik-Meijer-is-leaving-MS http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Erik-Meijer-is-l...
- zura 13y agoThanks, as it says, Brian Beckman has also left MS.
- mattpodwysocki 13y agoYes, but work continues on Rx with MS Open Tech and Microsoft, especially since it is open source. * Disclaimer * I am an Rx team member
- tomku 13y agoI don't think I've ever signed up for something more quickly than when I saw this announcement pop up on Twitter. Really enjoyed the Functional Programming with Scala course when it ran last year, and I'm happy to see the sequel come to fruition.
- 727374 13y agoThe Functional Programming class I took last year was pretty much as good as the expensive CS courses I took at Big Name U. Oh, and it happened to be taught by the guy that invented Scala. I'll admit it, I'm turning into a Coursera fanboy.
- nly 13y agoNote that the Functional course is a recommended prerequisite for the Reactive one and the former runs again at the beginning of September, meaning you can do both in sequence.
- goostavos 13y agoIs there a place to download coursera videos like you can with Udacity? I'm really interested in the Scala course, but it just kind of sucks that it can only be taken during a certain time frame. I've been working my way through Programming in Scala, but the course seems like it'd be a great compliment for understanding the "functional" style of programming. As it is now, I feel I'm simply a compiler which translates my imperative Python background into Scala syntax.
- mkopinsky 13y agoWhile the course is running (at least for the course I'm currently enrolled in) every video has a download icon at the far right. At times (for me), the time-based nature of coursera is a very good thing. If I know that I need to complete a homework by 1am Sunday night, which means I need to finish watching this week's videos by Thursday night, that means there's a chance I'll actually do so. Without that deadline (and with no money or grade on the line) HN or Reddit or other timewasters are far too tempting.
- mgraczyk 13y agoIn case you didn't notice, this course is being co-instructed by Erik Meijer, creator of the fantastic reactive extensions for .NET library. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg577609.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg577609.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh242985(v=vs.110).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh242985(v=vs.110).a... I encourage anybody who has to write or maintain more than a few lines of C# or .NET code to check them out (and possibly take this class if it turns out to be good).
- macca321 13y agoIf you're into FRP in .NET, please checkout the OLINQ project on github. It lets you define LINQ queries against reactive sources and have them update themselves as the sources change, letting you do things like realtime aggregation in a couple of lines of code. I think it's wickles. https://github.com/wasabii/OLinq https://github.com/wasabii/OLinq
- rybosome 13y agoFantastic! I've been wanting to learn FRP for quite some time. The fact that this is a follow-up to the awesome Scala course is a bonus. I can't wait for this to begin. =) EDIT: The syllabus doesn't mention any FRP libs. I'm surprised, especially as one of the professors is the author of RX. Maybe because there isn't a canonical one in Scala?
- tomku 13y agoOne of the blog posts[1] I saw announcing it had a few more details than the course page, including a mention of RxJava. [1]: http://letitcrash.com/post/59504788607/new-coursera-course-on-principles-of-reactive http://letitcrash.com/post/59504788607/new-coursera-course-o...
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoThey don't mention FRP. RX is a subset of FRP oriented around just event streams without continuous signals; think of it as FRP lite. Their actors and futures unit makes me wonder if this is also about concurrency in addition to reactivity. Nothing about state repair at all. If Conal Elliott ever decides to teach a coursera on FRP...
- ridicter 13y agoCan some explain like I'm 5 the tradeoffs between Go/Scala/JS[node.js]? I've been googlin', and there aren't enough articles that compare and contrast the three.
- gnuvince 13y agoWithout being an expert on any of them: * Go: statically typed, no type parametrization, good support for CSP-like concurrency, deeply imperative language. Proponents site its speed of compilation, simplicity, and growing community. * Scala: statically typed, modern and sophisticated type system, supports OO and functional programming, runs on the JVM, has good concurrency support. I really don't know enough about Node.js to say anything about it. It's Javascript, so it's dynamic typing and a mix of OO and functional programming.
- lobrien 13y agoGo is supposed to be a better C. Scala is supposed to be a better Java. JS is supposed to be popular. EDIT: Go is intended to be a systems-programming language with an emphasis not only on runtime efficiency and concurrency, but additionally on such things as compilation speed. Scala is intended to be a hybrid OO-functional language that is approachable by a broad class of mainstream programmers (i.e., Java programmers), with a type system considerably more sophisticated than Java. The emphasis is, I'd say, on a language that has long-term potential, at the cost of a somewhat problematic toolchain. JavaScript's enormous advantages are that it is universally available, easy to approach, and flexible enough to support functional techniques.
- ghc 13y agoBack when Borders was still around I stumbled upon a Functional Reactive Programming book by Paul Hudak. To this day it's still one of my favorites. If you know Haskell and don't want to learn Scala, you might enjoy this as an alternative to the course. The book is called The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Haskell-School-Expression-Programming/dp/0521644089 http://www.amazon.com/The-Haskell-School-Expression-Programm...
- thetwiceler 13y agoAs far as I know, Hudak has updated and renamed his book to The Haskell School of Music, and it's available for free from the Yale Haskell Group's website here: http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?post_type=publication&p=112 http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?post_type=publication&p=112 The book is a really awesome way to learn Haskell. However, very little of it is actually about FRP; there's one section about GUIs using FRP, and it doesn't go very much in depth.
- fusiongyro 13y agoPretty sure that's just a different book by the same author. "Updating" a book on graphics to make it about music instead doesn't sound like a second edition kind of maneuver.
- hrjet 13y ago... especially true for one dealing with an "immutable" programming language :)
- theboywho 13y agoThis is awesome news. I really enjoyed the Functional Programming with Scala course and can't hide my excitement for this one. This is also interesting to me because it shows that teaching and learning does not have to be at some big name University.
- Nekorosu 13y agoMy only complain it's in Scala. I wish there were the same course but in Haskell.
- lelf 13y agoNote: this is not about “FRP” (if you don't believe me — http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1l7ru2/principles_of_reactive_programming_coursera/cbwvpjq http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1l7ru2/principles_o...)
- pohl 13y agoThat's a good thing to point out. The "reactive programming" in the course title comes not from the acronym FRP but from this: http://www.reactivemanifesto.org http://www.reactivemanifesto.org