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Learning Scala online

As I mentioned on my last post I've been attending Functional Programming Principles in Scala course at Coursera . It's been three weeks now and I thought I should express my current feelings about the course. Course arrangements Arrangements on the course are just about what I expected. Series of video lectures per week, some quizzes in the videos and homework that's evaluated automatically in a matter of minutes. Homework assignments and videos are given on mondays and homework deadline is in about ten days from that. On the first three weeks the lectures and homework has been about abstract presentations of entities and mathematical definitions. Lectures Lectures i.e. videos can be viewed online or downloaded and one can also download english subtitles for the videos and the slides shown on videos are also downloadable as pdf's. The subtitles could be helpful sometimes but the quality isn't that good, missing and wrong words, so I don't use