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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The key question to me is: what kind of time commitment must one make?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Is it one hour a week? An hour a day?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> beginners-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:beginners-bounces@haskell.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rustom Mody<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 19, 2013 12:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> beginners<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Haskell-beginners] ANN: MOOC course on Functional Programming<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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>
It is our contribution towards getting Haskell and FP up on MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).<br>
<br>
The aim is:<br>
1. To use Haskell as medium to understand and showcase functional programming<br>
2. To show how using Haskell <i>as a thinking language</i> can change the quality of programming in more conventional
<i>coding languages</i> -- eg python.<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
1. Mastering Haskell is harder today than when FP was an academic passtime<br>
2. <i>Haskell-the-technology</i> is obscuring the possibilities and reach of <i>Haskell-for-CS<br>
</i>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>
<br>
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>
<br>
So$B!D(B<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 $B"*(B Lisp, Denotational Semantics $B"*(B ML, Notation as a tool for thought $B"*(B 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> <o:p>
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