The Best Functional Programming Courses of Hacker News
Hacker News was created by Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, as a place for tech-savvy individuals to share and discuss interesting content related to technology, startups, programming, and more.
Initially, it started as a simple link aggregator, where users could submit links to articles, blog posts, and projects they found intriguing.
Over time, it evolved into a thriving community with a strong emphasis on intellectual curiosity, thoughtful discussions, and quality content.
I'm an avid reader of Hacker News and often come across high-quality discussions from the community. I found that the courses and books people discuss on Hacker News are really good, so I conduct monthly analyses and aggregate the top courses/books found in comments and rank them.
Top Courses
Functional Programming in Scala
Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 227 HN points · 29 HN commentscoursera.org/learn/progfun1
Coursera · Offered by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 144 HN points · 44 HN commentsProgramming Languages, Part A
Coursera · University of Washington · 60 HN points · 69 HN commentsAn Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1)
Coursera · Rice University · 56 HN points · 13 HN commentsFunctional Programming in Erlang
FutureLearn · The University of Kent · 83 HN points · 7 HN commentsIntroduction to Functional Programming
edX · Delft University of Technology · 55 HN points · 8 HN commentsFunctional Programming in Haskell: Supercharge Your Coding
FutureLearn · The University of Glasgow · 69 HN points · 2 HN commentsParadigms of Computer Programming – Fundamentals
edX · Université catholique de Louvain · 46 HN points · 9 HN commentsFunctional Programming Principles in Scala
Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 5 HN points · 11 HN commentsStatistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations
Coursera · École normale supérieure · 7 HN commentscoursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-b
Coursera · Offered by University of Washington · 5 HN commentsIntroduction to Functional Programming
edX · Delft University of Technology · 3 HN points · 4 HN commentsF# From the Ground Up
Udemy · Kit Eason · 1 HN points · 2 HN commentsThe Complete Elixir and Phoenix Bootcamp
Udemy · Stephen Grider · 3 HN commentsFunctional Program Design in Scala
Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 2 HN points · 1 HN commentsParallel programming
Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 3 HN points · 1 HN commentsCombinatorics and Probability
Coursera · University of California San Diego · 1 HN commentsIntroduction to Graph Theory
Coursera · University of California San Diego · 1 HN commentsEffective Programming in Scala
Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 1 HN commentsKotlin for Java Developers
Coursera · JetBrains · 1 HN commentsIntroduction to Ableton Live
Coursera · Berklee College of Music · 1 HN commentsCOBOL Programming with VSCode
Coursera · IBM · 1 HN commentsLearning Functional Programming with F#
Udemy · 2 HN commentscoursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-c
Coursera · Offered by University of Washington · 1 HN commentsPython Programming Essentials
Coursera · Rice University · 1 HN comments
Our methodology
We conducted this analysis by "ranking things based on social signals"
It's the result of mining the HN archives for references to online courses and then ranking them and displaying all references in one place.
Ranking currently takes into account HN stories (points) and comments (sentiment, karma, estimated points).
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