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 clas

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.