Just to imagine what you are asking and.... unbelievable!! I want to be in that course
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Jorge Fiallega <jorgefiall...@gmail.com>wrote: > This is a story from the trenches of your every day developer: > I am in platonic love with clojure. I have tried 2 or 3 times to pick up a > book and go through it. The truth is that I always get distracted by > something else and other priorities. I promised myself that before I ever > learn Scala I would learn Clojure which I am so attracted to. > On Sept 18th I will start the Scala course in Coursera, 'Functional > Programming Principles in Scala'. What made me violate my promisse ? > 1. It is a course with a structure, deadlines and a grade, which will make > me finish it. > 2. I know I will succeed in learning. > 3. It is taught by Martin Odersky himself and that sells a lot, a lot, a > lot. > 4. It is free. > > I think that is such a smart move by Martin Odersky and the Scala > community, and I only wish Rich Hickey or Stuart Halloway would do the > same. To showcase such a language in such a platform (Coursera or Udacity > does not matter), reaching 30K - 100K developers in such a short period of > time and having control on teaching them the right way, is creating a force > that will work for you, from within the companies. > > I am kindly asking Rich Hickey, Stuart Halloway or some other big name to > create a course like this in Clojure. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
