I can see that the required effort would be prohibitive, but after thinking about this some more I do think there are a couple of nice advantages:<br><br>1) Quizzes and graded assignments offer some structure to self study, and having some form of feedback/validation when you first get started is helpful. I learned a lot of Haskell by making up my own assignments, but not everyone is willing to put that kind of time into it.<br>
<br>2) I know several developers with great engineering skills who are taking the Scala course because it gives them a structured way to get into it and have something to show for the time on their resume. They're busy professionals whose skills and expertise in large projects could really benefit the Haskell community, but I've had no luck convincing them that it's worth the time spent researching and learning on their own.<br>
<br>Scala already has some appeal for them if they have to work with java code or have spent years with object oriented programming, so I think the more the Haskell community can do to bring them here, the better. <br><br>
Whether or not it's feasible to create the course is another issue. I don't have an academic background or any academic affiliations to get the ball rolling, but if anyone wants to make a course I'll volunteer to help proof materials, test quizzes and assignments, and work on utilities to submit and grade assignments.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Brent Yorgey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:byorgey@seas.upenn.edu" target="_blank">byorgey@seas.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:49:08PM +0530, niket wrote:<br>
> I am a novice in Haskell but I would love to see the gurus out here<br>
> teaching Haskell on MOOCs like Coursera or Udacity.<br>
><br>
> Dr Martin Odersky is doing it for Scala here:<br>
> <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun" target="_blank">https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun</a><br>
><br>
> I would love to see Haskell growing on such new platforms!<br>
<br>
</div></div>Just as a counterpoint, putting together a MOOC is a *ton* of work,<br>
with (in my opinion) not much benefit for a topic like Haskell where<br>
it is already possible to access lots of quality instructional<br>
materials online. I would rather see Haskell gurus put their time and<br>
effort into producing more awesome code (or into curating existing<br>
instructional materials).<br>
<br>
Just my 2c.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-Brent<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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