I'm just a beginner for CS or SE classes, and find this course really concise and challenging. It opens a door for me to get deeper into programming language. No wonder it got so high average score.
Very interesting course! Superb teaching and homework assignments. If you are interested in functional programming or in programming languages in general, this should be one of the must take MOOCs
By Bianca G
•Excellent course! Dan is a brilliant teacher. It's amazing how much you learn from this mooc.
By shaahin k
•the idea of start by sml is briliant and very helpful about the base of programming languages
By Sixiang C
•This is good first course in Funtional programming.
The materials and exercises are excellent.
By Ahmed E
•Very good and organized course material, with really amazing teaching by prof. Dan Grossman
By Orlando S
•Good course to improve software development undestanding functional programming languages
By Vinicius S
•A challenging rewarding course, a must-have for aspiring programmers. I learned a lot.
By Ziyang G
•It was super fun and helpful to get to know the basic ideas of functional programming.
By Stan Z
•Excellent course. I wanted to learn ML for a long time. Planning to take Part B and C
By Vivekanand G N
•This is a fantastic and ground breaking course. A must in every programmer's toolbox
By Patrick B
•Excellent overview of SML and great introduction to functional programming concepts.
By Liao T
•Great content for programming language, but too many videos seem to be overwhelming.
By Dante F
•A litle fast but with a lot of many important concepts inside. Thanks Prof. Grossman
By Marcelo d S
•Excellent course on programming language: functions, recursion, currying, closure...
By Mariia R
•Amazing course! It opened my eyes for what all this things in code are really mean.
By Gabriel D
•I've enjoyed it a lot. Dan explanations and examples are very clear and intuitive.
By Serjey G I
•Awesome course! The thing you need if you want to know the functional programming!
By Wang Y
•Loving the course. Dan's passion is a main driving force to study the material :)
By Gao P
•函数式编程语言非常好的入门课程,project难度适中,老师的讲解清晰。推荐先把课程Notes看一遍,尝试敲一遍Notes中的代码,然后看课程视频,会收获颇丰。
By Kevin Z
•amazing course and excellent lecture! Very impressive about explanation on SML.
By Li D
•This is the first time I'm exposed to functional programming and it is amazing.
By Eduardo M
•Lots of fun involved. The professor is great and the homework was challenging.
By Nick
•Dan Grossman is a phenomenal instructor. I wish he could teach me everything
By Xavier
•Great explanation and material. The professor is dynamic and clear. Thanks!
By Pavel I
•Excellent instructor and course material. One of the best Coursera classes.
By Shreck Y
•Excellent course that introduced me to the field of programming languages.