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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Coursera class: Principles of Reactive Programming

A few weeks ago, I completed the "Principles of Reactive Programming" class led by Martin Odersky, Erik Meijer and Roland Kuhn. This Coursera class started in November 2013 and was around 7 weeks long. It was a great class in which we learnt how to write reactive programs in Scala. The course mainly covered Futures, Promises, Observables, Rx streams and Akka Actors. It was quite challenging but the assignments were very enjoyable. We wrote a virus simulation and a wikipedia suggestions app!

Update (30 Aug 2014): I have committed my assignment solutions to my GitHub repository.

Sunday, January 06, 2013

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!