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Odersky is a truly brilliant language designer. However, he tends to talk slooooowly and methodically (him being German/Swiss is probably related), which makes

by teacr 14y ago

Odersky is a truly brilliant language designer. However, he tends to talk slooooowly and methodically (him being German/Swiss is probably related), which makes watching his videos kind of unfun, and there are no slides. There's an hour of lectures, and I'm pretty sure I could say the same stuff in a 10 minute video at most. I mean, this kind of way of teaching is really ancient and outdated; why would you subject yourself to 7 weeks of watching boring videos, when you could just read his whole book RIGHT NOW in 1-2 days, and then read other books, tutorials on websites, etc.?

microtherion 14y ago
Yes, I found the class somewhat slow going, and the programming environment fairly unpleasant (I’m not used to working in Eclipse). I ended up dropping the class somewhere in the middle. Generally, I learn better from books than from lectures, but I found that some of the lecturers in online courses are truly outstanding (Prof Agarwal in Circuits and Electronics at MITx, Profs Ng (Stanford, Machine Learning), Egerstedt (Georgia Tech, Control of Mobile Robots), Pattison (Berklee, Songwriting)), so listening to their lectures was worth it. I did not quite find Odersky as strong as a lecturer.
- sampo 14y ago
  You can edit the source files with any text editor, and compile, test and submit using `sbt` from the command line. No need to use Eclipse.
  - recursive 14y ago
    The lectures really only showed how to accomplish it with eclipse.
sampo 14y ago
> he tends to talk slooooowly `mplayer -af scaletempo` and then pressing ] to increase the speed of the video, without altering the pitch of the sound, was my solution. (And I hear also the Coursera player lets you to change the video speed.)
brown9-2 14y ago
You can watch any of the Coursera videos sped up at 1.1x, 1.5x speed, etc. It helps.

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Odersky is a truly brilliant language designer. However, he tends to talk slooooowly and methodically (him being German/Swiss is probably related), which makes

by teacr 14y ago

microtherion 14y ago
Yes, I found the class somewhat slow going, and the programming environment fairly unpleasant (I’m not used to working in Eclipse). I ended up dropping the class somewhere in the middle. Generally, I learn better from books than from lectures, but I found that some of the lecturers in online courses are truly outstanding (Prof Agarwal in Circuits and Electronics at MITx, Profs Ng (Stanford, Machine Learning), Egerstedt (Georgia Tech, Control of Mobile Robots), Pattison (Berklee, Songwriting)), so listening to their lectures was worth it. I did not quite find Odersky as strong as a lecturer.
- sampo 14y ago
  You can edit the source files with any text editor, and compile, test and submit using `sbt` from the command line. No need to use Eclipse.
  - recursive 14y ago
    The lectures really only showed how to accomplish it with eclipse.
sampo 14y ago
> he tends to talk slooooowly `mplayer -af scaletempo` and then pressing ] to increase the speed of the video, without altering the pitch of the sound, was my solution. (And I hear also the Coursera player lets you to change the video speed.)
brown9-2 14y ago
You can watch any of the Coursera videos sped up at 1.1x, 1.5x speed, etc. It helps.