Sep 15, 2016
This is a university degree course which takes enormous effort to complete. But still its beond the programming course range giving you whats not possible to google or learn practical way. Thanks!
Mar 18, 2018
Thank you for this exciting course! I did the FP in Scala course a few years ago and decided to do the full certification now. I am looking forward to the next courses in the specialisation.
by Иванов О
•Nov 09, 2017
Not a bad course, a nice introduction to monads, reactive programming and futures, though it has a lot of disconnected chunks and exercises from the old course and isn't as polished as the first one about FP (which, in my opinion, really set the bar for other courses).
by Henrik S
•Jan 04, 2017
The first two weeks where very well structured and as interesting as the first course. In week 4 it seems that there have been materials from other courses puzzled together (Principles of Reactive Programming). That made it a bit difficult to keep on track.
by Youssef E H
•May 07, 2017
Great course in general. I would have appreciated an exercice about Futures for week 4.
by Junji S
•Jan 09, 2017
Overall learned a lot. Some contents are hard to follow but using supplementary material helped me to discover new things about scala.
by Zsolt K
•Nov 20, 2016
This one is a bit overpriced, but interesting and useful.
by Daniel D
•Sep 03, 2016
Thanks EPFL good course and has certainly broaden my awareness of the possibilities of using Scala.
by Aleksey D
•Jan 28, 2017
too easy
by Majid H
•Oct 23, 2016
Great course overall. It looked though as if some of the lectures were cut and pasted from some other course into the content and were not as coherent as they could be (particularly the case with the last week's material on FRP).
by francisco
•Sep 12, 2016
Good review of essential concepts. Lazyness and Signals ... and quickcheck!
by Chinmay P
•Jun 28, 2016
Maybe an unfair comparison but I am comparing this with the principles of reactive programming. That had much more contents such as actors, etc. Having said that this is a good course by itself.
by Oleg S
•Nov 16, 2016
Good. But the previous course was better.
by Tim W
•Feb 26, 2017
Great course, however, I needed more time than was suggested
by Semyon
•Apr 15, 2017
lectures do not correspond to the laboratory work
by Mikhail K
•Jul 16, 2017
Just a little comment. Week 4 was somewhat of a letdown. Such central to FPD theme as reactive programming is overcondensed into really limited amount of time. 1 Week feels like a waisted opportunity which only scratched a surface. And it's quite obvious that authors planned it to be longer (mr. Odersky even explicitly mentions 3 weeks of material in first 3 lectures of Week 4) and more in depth but for some reason that didn't come to be. Also inclusion of materials from other course (RP) for some introduction of Future monad goodness doesn't look very nice from perspective of professionalism. It's obvious that authors struggled with deadlines, so until this course's revision and improvement just 4 out of 5 from me (compared to 5 out of 5 for Course 1 from the Specialization), sorry!
by Vinicius L
•Oct 22, 2017
The course is awesome... but I got myself a little lost when changing from Martin to Erick. Sometimes changing is good, by as a personal choice, I prefer the way Martin exposes the content so for me, the learning process is better.
by rand(23)
•Nov 22, 2016
Overall very good and somehow challenging course, however week 4 is a bit convoluted (E. Meijer referring to the nonexisting (in this edition of the course) previous video etc.)
by Narh D T
•Nov 17, 2016
This course was really great. It help to broaden my knowledge.
by Dustin H
•Nov 19, 2016
Very interesting course. Four stars instead of five because it was less about "Program Design" (from the title) than I would have liked.
by Andrew S
•Jul 30, 2016
The course was nice but not structured very good, especially week 4. From time to time you have a feeling that this course is more like a compilation of lectures made for other courses with similar topic. Especially confusing are moments when during the lecture author references previous materials you expected to know from lectures you've never heard. That's strange.
by Pietro G
•Sep 02, 2017
Actors were missing.
by Julien J
•Aug 19, 2017
Less interesting than the other Scala courses but still great!
by Aneesh D
•Apr 06, 2018
A great follow up to the previous course. The planned content is great but the last week goes too fast and the last part about Future is very inadequate to understand Futures well. Also please add more content on Monads.
by Lawrence A
•Oct 13, 2016
This course has been very good, and i will recommend it to anyone who wants to learn functional programming.
by Kaloyan T
•Dec 21, 2016
Pretty informative course, even if the first one or two weeks used to the part of the Intro to Scala course. The 2nd part of the lectures in the 4th week seem really disconnected from the rest of the course and are introduced with very little context.
by Shad A
•Oct 31, 2016
Thought provoking exercises.