{"id":689,"date":"2015-07-02T09:44:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T08:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=689"},"modified":"2015-07-02T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T08:54:40","slug":"launch-of-free-online-masterclasses-in-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2015\/07\/02\/launch-of-free-online-masterclasses-in-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of free online masterclasses in programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University has launched a series of masterclasses in Erlang, a programming language that powers websites around the world, including WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/ErlangMasterClasses\/\">free online classes\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0include contributions from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/sjt\/\">Simon Thompson<\/a>, Professor of Logic and Computation at Kent, and industry experts Joe Armstrong (one of the inventors of Erlang) and Francesco Cesarini (founder of the largest Erlang consultancy).<\/p>\n<p>The masterclasses\u00a0build on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/\">School of Computing<\/a>\u2019s reputation as a centre of excellence for functional programming and Erlang. The classes include larger-scale examples and case-studies. A pre-launch announcement of the videos at an industry conference led to more than 2,000 views on YouTube within a fortnight.<\/p>\n<p>The masterclasses\u00a0are part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/elearning\/themes\/kmoocs.html\">K-MOOCs Beacon Project<\/a>, a joint initiative by the School of Computing and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/uelt\/\">Unit for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (UELT)<\/a>.\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/beacon\/\">Beacon Projects<\/a>\u00a0have been funded by the University to highlight our successes and aspirations during our 50th\u00a0anniversary year.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Thompson will\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/profsjt.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/05\/functional-programming-in-erlang-mooc.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>\u00a0about the K-MOOC as it progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University has launched a series of masterclasses in Erlang, a programming language that powers websites around the world, including WhatsApp. The\u00a0free online classes\u00a0\u00a0include contributions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2015\/07\/02\/launch-of-free-online-masterclasses-in-programming\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[142760,112457,112456,142763,142759,57984],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}