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My introduction to programming course in my university was in OCaml. It was all downhill from there when it comes to the programming languages I had to use.

by kubb 4y ago

newsoul 4y ago
Which university? Does the course have a public webpage?
- pwiecz 4y ago
  Not the original commenter, but my first year course of Introduction of Programming 15 years age was also using OCaml. There were two groups of students, standard one was using Pascal, and the functional one using OCaml. I was studying on Warsaw University and the lecture notes are in Polish: https://mimuw.edu.pl/~kubica/wpf/wpf.pdf https://mimuw.edu.pl/~kubica/wpf/wpf.pdf
  - newsoul 4y ago
    Thanks! 15 years, that's quite a long time ago.
    - pwiecz 4y ago
      Yup. I really loved all the functional stuff I've learned there from OCaml to SML+Extended ML, to Haskell. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to professionally program functionally since the n. :( It was all Java and C++. Though I like C++, maybe it's a Stockholm syndrome. ;)
  - kubb 4y ago
    That was exactly the course that I took at the WU :) Fond memories.
- lmm 4y ago
  Cambridge does this (or did when I was there); https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/ https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/ is the book for the course (available online).
  - geophertz 4y ago
    It still does according to the undergraduate program page https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/computer-science https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/computer-s...
afarviral 4y ago
Seems its better to start with javascript so you can have the reverse experience.
- bobthechef 4y ago
- kubb 4y ago
  Then I would probably be writing HN posts claiming that languages with advanced type systems and functional programming are too hard and impractical, and that they are trying to be clever and cool for no reason. But, partly thanks to that course, I'm able to pick up any paradigm, and my opinion on what's better is informed by knowledge of both things. I'm also able to structure imperative code better than my "imperative only" colleagues.

My introduction to programming course in my university was in OCaml. It was all downhill from there when it comes to the programming languages I had to use.

by kubb 4y ago

My introduction to programming course in my university was in OCaml. It was all downhill from there when it comes to the programming languages I had to use.

newsoul 4y ago

Which university? Does the course have a public webpage?

pwiecz 4y ago
Not the original commenter, but my first year course of Introduction of Programming 15 years age was also using OCaml. There were two groups of students, standard one was using Pascal, and the functional one using OCaml. I was studying on Warsaw University and the lecture notes are in Polish: https://mimuw.edu.pl/~kubica/wpf/wpf.pdf https://mimuw.edu.pl/~kubica/wpf/wpf.pdf
- newsoul 4y ago
  Thanks! 15 years, that's quite a long time ago.
  - pwiecz 4y ago
    Yup. I really loved all the functional stuff I've learned there from OCaml to SML+Extended ML, to Haskell. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to professionally program functionally since the n. :( It was all Java and C++. Though I like C++, maybe it's a Stockholm syndrome. ;)
- kubb 4y ago
  That was exactly the course that I took at the WU :) Fond memories.
lmm 4y ago
Cambridge does this (or did when I was there); https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/ https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/ is the book for the course (available online).
- geophertz 4y ago
  It still does according to the undergraduate program page https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/computer-science https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/computer-s...

afarviral 4y ago

Seems its better to start with javascript so you can have the reverse experience.

bobthechef 4y ago
kubb 4y ago
Then I would probably be writing HN posts claiming that languages with advanced type systems and functional programming are too hard and impractical, and that they are trying to be clever and cool for no reason. But, partly thanks to that course, I'm able to pick up any paradigm, and my opinion on what's better is informed by knowledge of both things. I'm also able to structure imperative code better than my "imperative only" colleagues.