[Haskell-beginners] ANN: MOOC course on Functional Programming

[mukesh tiwari]

I think it will be offered if it gets enough votes.

We are offering the Haskell/FP related course:
https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python
which goes online if it gathers enough votes.

-Mukesh


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:52 AM, 7stud <7stud at excite.com> wrote:

> I don't get it.  Is that a class being offered online?  Is it free?  When
> is it offered?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Rustom Mody" [rustompmody at gmail.com]
> Date: 05/19/2013 12:37 PM
> To: "beginners" <beginners at haskell.org>
> Subject: [Haskell-beginners] ANN: MOOC course on Functional Programming
>
> We are offering the Haskell/FP related course:
>
> https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python
> which goes online if it gathers enough votes.
>
> It  is our contribution towards getting Haskell and FP up on MOOC (Massive
> Open Online Course).
>
> The aim is:
> 1. To use Haskell as medium to understand and showcase functional
> programming
> 2. To show how using Haskell as a thinking language can change the quality
> of programming in more conventional coding languages -- eg python.
>
> It  has been designed in the spirit of using haskell to play with ideas,
>  and then idiomatically refine them for any implementation contexts
>  including Haskell.
> Therefore, in this course (classical) typeful functional programming  will
> take precedence over (modern) type hackery. Some aspects of this  shift of
> emphasis is [3].
> Also some paradigm/philosophy questions, eg why much-hyped paradigms like
> OOP are not such a good idea [4]
>
> Functional Programming has never had it so good as today!
> Books like RWH, implementations like ghc, and of course the Haskell
> language itself are all part of this Never Before.
>
> spj has often joked about avoiding success at all costs.  This may be
> somewhat tongue-in-cheek yet is also serious.
> As Haskell enters the mainstream and  begins to compete head-on-head with
> C, C++, Java, Python etc, we need to separate out these aspects:
>
> 1. Mastering Haskell is harder today than when FP was an academic passtime
> 2. Haskell-the-technology is obscuring the possibilities and reach of
> Haskell-for-CS
> 3. The elegant computer science (FP) + powerful  modern technology (ghc)
> is obscuring the questions of paradigm and  perspective that marked the
> inception of the field in an earlier era [1]
>
> One  of the main intentions behind this course is to take cognizance of
>  these facts and work on the Haskell-learning-curve to make it accessible
>  to people with a wide swathe of interests/backgrounds.
>
> So…
> Those who are called to the above, Please Vote!
> And those who are not called, also please vote [After all the choice is
> between this Haskell/FP course and none <wink> ]
>
> Rusi
> -----------------------------
> [1] Think of AI →  Lisp, Denotational Semantics → ML, Notation as a tool
> for thought → APL etc
> [2]
> https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python
> [3] A shopping-list of topics in classic FP :
> http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/functional-programming-lost-booty.html
>      Recursion as a wider concept than just recursive functions
> http://blog.languager.org/2012/05/recursion-pervasive-in-cs.html
> [4] Folly of OOP
> http://blog.languager.org/2012/07/we-dont-need-no-ooooo-orientation-4.html
>
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