Essential Scala (in Space)
- £7,500
- 3 days
- 2-10 trainees
- On-site or remote
A conversion course to Scala for developers from other languages. We'll get you coding the right way as quickly as possible with equal doses of FP theory and hands-on labs. If you are an experienced developer taking your first steps in Scala, this is the course for you.
Course Outline
The Mechanics of Scala
- Expressions, types, and values
- Reasoning using substitution
- Method and value definitions
- Scala's type hierarchy
- Objects and classes
- Structure of a Scala application
Modelling Data
- Algebraic Data Types
- Case classes and sealed traits
- Pattern matching
- Common examples of ADTs
Collections and Computations
- Traversing Lists and Options
- Error handling with Option and Either
- The map and flatMap methods
- For comprehensions
- Monads!
Generic Types
- Type parameters on classes and methods
- Generalised Algebraic Data Types
- Variance and type bounds
- Functors!
Type Classes
- The type class pattern
- Implicit parameters and values
- Rules of implicit resolution
- Recursive implicit resolution
- Packaging implicits
Asynchronous and Concurrent Programming in Scala
- Parallelism versus concurrency
- Models of concurrency
- Practical exercises with your choice of:
- scala.concurrent, or
- Cats Effect
Course Books
The content for this course is open source:
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Logistics
We can deliver courses on-site or online over video conferencing in the UK, Europe, US, or further afield.
We'll adjust the teaching schedule to a certain degree to fit around your team's existing commitments. When teaching online we recommend splitting longer courses into shorter sessions with interspersed breaks to avoid fatigue.