Functional programming for all! Scaling a MOOC for students and professionals alike

36th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE Companion 2014 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 256-263

  Miller, Heather ^a   Haller, Philipp ^b   Rytz, Lukas ^a   Odersky, Martin ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Typesafe ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automated grading; MOOC; Programming education; Software engineering education

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING; GRADING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; STUDENTS;

AUTOMATED GRADING; HIGHER EDUCATION; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOC; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PROGRAMMING EDUCATION; SUPPORTING TOOL; TESTING FRAMEWORK;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84903616253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2591062.2591161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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