The whole series of courses (parts A, B and C) are must take for anyone learning software engineering through moocs. Dan is one of the best teachers I've seen - to give such clarity of concepts through recorded video lectures is very impressive. I already recommended these courses and will continue to do so. Thanks!

Specifically about C part - I really liked the functional languages (especially I am into lisp-like syntax, very intrigued about other similar functional languages (clojure)) but this course gives a very nice contrast between functional and oop styles as well as deeper understanding of the oop approach to program decomposition for a person that has to write code on a daily basis, but has no software engineering training.

Finally, wrapped it all up with Ruby, OOP and other great topics. The homeworks, especially the Tetris one were really fun. A great finale to parts B and C with a pretty challenging final exam. I counted: the reading notes together for parts A, B and C are 180 pages. What a journey! Thanks for sharing this course Dan!

One of the best courses on coursera. Highly recommend this, together with "From Nand to Tetris".

Dan said in the last lecture that he hoped to have shared some of the passion and awe about programming languages with us, that a small number of powerful ideas underlying these languages, combined with human ingenuity, have led to the amazing variety of software. I definitely felt that passion and awe, and am very grateful to him for taking me through this journey. I learnt a lot from these courses. It's not about ML, Racket or Ruby, but the way I think in programming.

Much to be gained with this course through learning language features with a high degree of precision around their semantics. Challenging enough to provide a real sense of accomplishment upon completion. Carefully constructed course materials.

After watching this course, now I truly understand Objects Oriented programming, and its relation with Functional Programming. Strongly recommend!

very good

This is an Absolutely Great Course. One of those rare ones where you feel that each of your smallest efforts brings you a step higher. Dan explains in a very clear and precise way all those concepts that an inexperienced programmer is usually afraid of: function closures, type inference, virtual methods and many more. I definitely recommend all the 3 parts to anyone who wants to call himself a programmer.

Thank you Dan!

One of the most rewarding courses I ever took online if not the best. ( I have taken more than 30 courses on coursera). The instructor is dedicated, easy to follow along with and have awesome tutoring skills overall. I would recommend this course(s) to anyone I know.

Part C ends the story, and if you liked Part A and Part B, there is no reason to not complete your journey with this course. It has the same great teaching style but now talks about OOP and contrasts it with functional programming. The three parts together form a wonderfull learning experience back from the early times where enthusiastic profs recorded lectures themselfes to spread the world about there subject.

This part concludes the Programming Languages series by Dan Grossman! All the 3 parts are amazing. I have learnt a lot in each part. I think now I can look at a problem and then choose a programming languages with some good reasoning behind the choice I make.THANK YOU COURSERA! THANK YOU DAN! :)

Part C of this course was harder because there were three languages to keep in mind and remember properties of! But it's nice to have been exposed to all the different decisions that go into creating a programming language.

Great course, nicely rounded off the discussions from previous parts. Really puts OOP style programming in context and nicely contrasts it from the functional programming concepts. Highly recommended!

A course with a lot of work, but great reward. Dan who holds the course is passionate and knows what he talks about, making it a pleasure to listen to.

Having mostly learned programming on my own I think I had many holes, following these three courses was like a new pair of glasses

Terrific course! Highly recommend to anyone programming.

the best programming course i've ever had!!!

Dan is great. Thanks a lot!

The last course in "Programming Languages" series. It introduces OOP and contrasts it with functional programming. Pros: - Good introduction to Ruby. Fast yet descriptive. - Good introduction to OOP with key ideas. - Very good comparison of OOP/Functional paradigm as ways to organize the same functionality differently (in opposite ways). - Good explanation of subtyping/generics. Cons: - Ruby may seem a bit too extreme choice for me here. The goal is clear: separate classes and types. However, from practical applications this confusion is often convenient (as was said in the course itself). - Bad examples and representation (a classic old way of teaching something: poor IDE and bad naming). The course illustrate concepts in silly examples (that's how the instructor calls them) with bad/arbitrary naming. As a result, the concept is clear, but it is hard to connect it to the real-world problem. I like examples with Point/Point3D/ColorPoint the most: the problem of multiple inheritance is the inferior since the bad "is-a" modelling is in the first place. This is just not how it is done in OOP. And exactly this bad modelling creates the diamond problem. Overall thoughts about the whole series of "Programming Languages": - the courses do their thing right: they illustrate core concepts of programming languages in different settings and teach you to see programming languages as sets of features and design decisions. The courses compare them and analyze how they work out in different situations. - the courses may not be as useful for practical development as for scientific R&D. However, it is good to know about learned concepts and to be able to see/use them in real development. - the course illustrates that in general functional paradigm is better and OOP is mostly suited for specific domains. However, for me the course implicitly illustrates that extremes are bad: 1. OOP has bad support of binary operations (by double dispatch). However, how often do the one face with such problems in real development? Usually, the domain is defined by business and is not so abstract (and don't forget about KISS). 2. Functional paradigm supports immutability. But this affects performance. And how often do the one care about performance? =) These focuses about specific problems favouring functional approach create a biased picture because we definitely care more about performance (but, of course, not all performance problems come from immutability). To sum up, there is a reason, why OOP is so popular. And there is a reason, why most programming languages supports both approaches in some way or another: just because one approach works better in one cases and other - in other cases. I think, this course lacks this message in a more explicit way.

Excellent set of courses. I love Dr. Grossmans's enthusiasm on the topic. I feel the material is very practical, and applicable to my career in full stack web development. It's immensely helpful having access to this material as I am not classically trained in computer science. I feel more confident navigating the turbulent world of Javascript, and continuously exploring additional languages, and idioms. The rigorous nature of the course is initially off putting as a busy professional doing the course part time, but the results are extremely rewarding. I encourage all interested in development to at least check out some of the videos on this course for a deeper understanding of the tools we use everyday.