This was the course that got me into my FP journey about 8 years ago. As you said, it is very difficult but if you can trudge through it, it really pays off in day to day work. - Tom Kaszuba - Medium

Review of Functional Programming Principles in Scala Coursera Course

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Dec 16, 2022

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This was the course that got me into my FP journey about 8 years ago. As you said, it is very difficult but if you can trudge through it, it really pays off in day to day work.

Tom Kaszuba

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