Learner Reviews & Feedback for Programming Languages, Part B by University of Washington

I'm a pretty experienced C/C++ programmer and this course has been a brilliant introduction into functional programming and the underlying philosophies underpinning programming languages in general.

Perfect course series for me!

nice

More difficult than part A but also more rewarding. Thanks Prof. Dan!

wonderful experience

It's hard not to see how much time and energy is spent on this course by the instructor and the team!

This series is really the course you need to take if you feel not comfortable and want to know why(or describe the feelings) when you code in school or work.

I learn lots of important programming language concepts from here.

Fantastic course, a must for anyone serious or interested about programming. Challenging, but time really well spent: Course very well organized, quality videos by a very engaging professor, and very interesting with gradual complexity exercises

One of the Best course I have ever taken. A great many of concrete examples. Thanks!

It is great fun to learn Racket and use it to implement an interpreter for MUPL.

AMAZING COURSE!

Courses I've taken on programming languages often focus on one language. You learn the different concepts for that one language but don't understand why the language chose those concepts and what the alternatives are. By covering three languages, this course integrates the concepts and their alternatives to give you a solid understanding of how languages work.

The programming assignments are carefully designed such that without so much coding you can capture the essence of the idea. Highly recommend.

challenging, insightful, fun!

Great course! Learned more about PL, what is interpreter/ compiler language, what is statically typed/ dynamically typed. The homework is very rewarding! Looking forward to Part C.

excellent! vey helpful for ungraduates and programmer! need time to understand truly.

Dan Grossman is a really amazing teacher! Learnt a lot! :)

I really enjoy the course and like how Dan explains everything. Very thoroughly and clear!

Extremely enjoyable course! I wasn't exactly looking forward to using the Racket language --- I knew nothing about it, to be honest, but it really impressed me. A beautiful language. But the course is not really about the language used. It covers some interesting topics (delayed evaluation, streams, type systems) and contains two very nice homework assignments: the first is mostly focused on streams (which is actually quite a fun) and in the second one you implement an interpreter for a simple language that contains closures!

Great!

great experience using racket writing a toy interpreter!

An absolutely high quality class. The instruction is superb, the assignment is on par with top programs at Stanford, MIT, and CMU. Dr. Grossman's lecture is just so clear and energetic that makes learning this hard topic fun.

It's definitely harder than Part A - Racket with its LISP-like syntax was pretty daunting for me. I just can't imagine using it in production after using so many C-style languages, but I know that there are lots of Scheme and Clojure fans out there. But it was great to learn about dynamic typing, macros, and getting to deeply understand how interpreters work. That was a real wow moment!

DO THIS COURSE. It brings together everything in part A. In particular, the final shorter week on the differences between Statically and dynamically typed languages is mind-bending and brilliant.