<div dir="ltr"><div><br>I think it will be offered if it gets enough votes. <br><br>
We are offering the Haskell/FP related course:<br>
<a href="https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python" target="_blank">https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python</a><br>
which goes online if it gathers enough votes.<br><br></div>-Mukesh<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:52 AM, 7stud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:7stud@excite.com" target="_blank">7stud@excite.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't get it. Is that a class being offered online? Is it free? When is it offered?<br>
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From: "Rustom Mody" [<a href="mailto:rustompmody@gmail.com">rustompmody@gmail.com</a>]<br>
Date: 05/19/2013 12:37 PM<br>
To: "beginners" <<a href="mailto:beginners@haskell.org">beginners@haskell.org</a>><br>
Subject: [Haskell-beginners] ANN: MOOC course on Functional Programming<br>
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We are offering the Haskell/FP related course:<br>
<a href="https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python" target="_blank">https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python</a><br>
which goes online if it gathers enough votes.<br>
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It is our contribution towards getting Haskell and FP up on MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).<br>
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The aim is:<br>
1. To use Haskell as medium to understand and showcase functional programming<br>
2. To show how using Haskell as a thinking language can change the quality of programming in more conventional coding languages -- eg python.<br>
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It has been designed in the spirit of using haskell to play with ideas, and then idiomatically refine them for any implementation contexts including Haskell.<br>
Therefore, in this course (classical) typeful functional programming will take precedence over (modern) type hackery. Some aspects of this shift of emphasis is [3].<br>
Also some paradigm/philosophy questions, eg why much-hyped paradigms like OOP are not such a good idea [4]<br>
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Functional Programming has never had it so good as today!<br>
Books like RWH, implementations like ghc, and of course the Haskell language itself are all part of this Never Before.<br>
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spj has often joked about avoiding success at all costs. This may be somewhat tongue-in-cheek yet is also serious.<br>
As Haskell enters the mainstream and begins to compete head-on-head with C, C++, Java, Python etc, we need to separate out these aspects:<br>
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1. Mastering Haskell is harder today than when FP was an academic passtime<br>
2. Haskell-the-technology is obscuring the possibilities and reach of Haskell-for-CS<br>
3. The elegant computer science (FP) + powerful modern technology (ghc) is obscuring the questions of paradigm and perspective that marked the inception of the field in an earlier era [1]<br>
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One of the main intentions behind this course is to take cognizance of these facts and work on the Haskell-learning-curve to make it accessible to people with a wide swathe of interests/backgrounds.<br>
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So…<br>
Those who are called to the above, Please Vote!<br>
And those who are not called, also please vote [After all the choice is between this Haskell/FP course and none <wink> ]<br>
<br>
Rusi<br>
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[1] Think of AI → Lisp, Denotational Semantics → ML, Notation as a tool for thought → APL etc<br>
[2] <a href="https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python" target="_blank">https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/the-dance-of-functional-programming-languaging-with-haskell-and-python</a><br>
[3] A shopping-list of topics in classic FP : <a href="http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/functional-programming-lost-booty.html" target="_blank">http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/functional-programming-lost-booty.html</a><br>
Recursion as a wider concept than just recursive functions <a href="http://blog.languager.org/2012/05/recursion-pervasive-in-cs.html" target="_blank">http://blog.languager.org/2012/05/recursion-pervasive-in-cs.html</a><br>
[4] Folly of OOP <a href="http://blog.languager.org/2012/07/we-dont-need-no-ooooo-orientation-4.html" target="_blank">http://blog.languager.org/2012/07/we-dont-need-no-ooooo-orientation-4.html</a><br>
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