Coursera class: Functional Programming Principles in Scala

I thought I'd mention that one of my highlights of last year was completing the "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" class led by Martin Odersky, the designer of Scala. This Coursera class started in September 2012 and was around 7 weeks long. Learning about functional programming was a rewarding experience and I found the course and assignments quite challenging, but immensely enjoyable. I even managed to get a distinction! I believe this course will be running again this year and I'd highly recommend it to people who wish to discover functional programming and Scala.

I have committed my assignment solutions to my GitHub repository.

I am now looking forward to starting some new classes in 2013!

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fahd.blog in 2012

Happy 2013!
I'd like to wish everyone a great start to an even greater new year!

During 2012, I posted 31 new entries on fahd.blog. I am also thrilled that I have more readers from all over the world too! Thanks for reading and especially for giving feedback.

Top 5 posts of 2012:

• Analysing a Java Core Dump
• Spring 3 - JavaConfig: Loading a Properties File
• Using a NamedQuery with a Composite ID in Hibernate
• Sybase: How to BCP data in and out of databases
• Java 7: Fork/Join Framework Example

I'm going to be writing a lot more this year, so stay tuned for more great techie tips, tricks and hacks! :)