This two-day Fast Track to Scala course, designed by Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala programming language, and Heiko Seeberger, a recognized Scala expert, will give you an excellent grounding in Scala.
LEARN HOW TO:
- be a competent user of Scala constructs in application code
- know and be able to apply the functional programming style in Scala
- know how to use the fundamental Scala tools
- be confident to start using Scala in production applications
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is best known as the creator of the Scala programming language. Prior to that, he made several contributions to the development of Java. He created the Pizza and GJ languages, design
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Heiko Seeberger is the Director Professional Services at Typesafe. He has been a Scala enthusiast ever since he came to know this beautiful language in 2008. Soon after he was infected by Scala he started the ScalaModules project, a Scala-based DSL f
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THE EXPERT
Nilanjan Raychaudhuri is a consultant and trainer for Typesafe. He has more than 12 years of experience managing and developing software solutions in Java/JEE, Ruby, Groovy and also in Scala. He is zealous about programming in Scala ever since he got introduced to this beautiful language. He enjoys sharing his experience via talks in various conferences and he is also the author of the 'Scala in Action' book.
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PROGRAMME
- Why Scala?
- Short history
- Overview of Scala's core characteristics
- Setting up the development environment
- Installing the Scala distribution
- Installing Eclipse and the Scala plugin
- Installing sbt
- First steps
- Interactive programming in the REPL
- Variables and methods
- Expressions and type inference
- First glance at functions
- Basic OO features
- Classes, class parameters, constructors
- Fields, class parameters as fields
- Methods
- Operators
- Named and default arguments
- Packages and imports
- Access modifiers
- Singleton objects, companions, Predef
- Case classes
- Testing in Scala
- sbt managed dependencies
- Test-driven development with triggered test (~test)
- Testing with specs2
- Learning FP by collections
- Collection hierarchy, creating instances
- Type parameters
- Tuples
- Immutability versus mutability
- Some important collection methods
- Higher-order functions and function literals
- Functions values, function types, short notation
- Important higher order functions: map, flatMap and filter
- For-expressions and -loops
- Generators
- Filters
- Definitions
- Translation of for-expressions and -loops
- Inheritance and traits
- Extending classes
- Final and sealed classes
- Enumerations
- Overriding members
- Abstract classes
- Implementing abstract members
- Standard type hierarchy
- Traits and mix-in composition
- Pattern Matching
- Match-expressions
- Pattern types
- Pattern guards
- Patterns outside of match expressions
- XML support
- Built-in literals
- XML library
IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?
This Fast Track to Scala workshop is intended to enable developers or development managers, who are experienced programmers in Java or other production languages like C++, C# or Ruby, to confidently start programming in Scala. No previous knowledge of Scala is assumed. Although intense, the course ensures you will have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of the language, the tooling and the development process as well as a good appreciation of the more advanced features. If you already have Scala programming experience, then this course could be a useful refresher.
COURSE PREREQUISITES
Important - Please note: Delegates are requested to bring their own laptop for this course, with Java 6 installed. If you are unable to bring a laptop for the course, please contact the sales team on ++1 347 708 1529, or email sales@skillsmatter.com. A full installation guide for the course software will be provided with your course joining instructions.
COURSE LABS & EXERCISES
The presentation of this Fast Track to Scala course will frequently be mixed with hands-on exercises that give you a good opportunity to try what you have learnt and a chance to clarify your understanding.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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