<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avparker</author><text>I took the course last year, and really enjoyed it a lot. It&apos;s a very good introduction to functional programming.&lt;p&gt;For anyone unsure about taking the course, I wrote about my experience on my blog [1], maybe that will be of use. I posted more technical details of the course contents on google+ (links in the blog post).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avparker.com/2012/11/25/functional-programming-principles-in-scala/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.avparker.com/2012/11/25/functional-programming-pr...&lt;/a&gt; .</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Functional Programming Principles in Scala’ starts today</title><url>https://class.coursera.org/progfun-002</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pvillega</author><text>To anyone doing the course or interested in Scala, 2 recommendations:&lt;p&gt;* the blog of Daniel Westheide (&lt;a href=&quot;http://danielwestheide.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://danielwestheide.com/&lt;/a&gt;) has a series of posts (starting at &lt;a href=&quot;http://danielwestheide.com/blog/2012/11/21/the-neophytes-guide-to-scala-part-1-extractors.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://danielwestheide.com/blog/2012/11/21/the-neophytes-gui...&lt;/a&gt; and currently at lesson 15) which may be worth reading to complement/expand on the course lectures. Probably not useful for the course itself until you’ve finished week 2 or 3, but relevant anyway.&lt;p&gt;* the book “Scala for the impatient”, probably the best book out there about Scala from beginner to advanced level</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Functional Programming Principles in Scala’ starts today</title><url>https://class.coursera.org/progfun-002</url></story>