Overview

Scala is a powerful programming language, used by Twitter, the Spark open source project, and many companies across ad tech, fin tech, and gaming. Yet Scala has features that Java, C#, and Kotlin do not have—features that those new to strongly-typed and functional programming languages may find confusing.

In this course, developers will thoroughly learn the syntax and semantics of beginner through intermediate level Scala, covering build tools, types, generics, classes, traits, data, type aliases, functions, collections, and the standard library. Developers from other programming languages will come away from this course able to write useful Scala programs, and use popular Scala libraries to solve real world problems.

Who Should Attend

Programmers who need to learn Scala, or entry-level Scala developers who want to master fundamentals.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with a statically-typed object-oriented programming language is useful.

Topics

• Scala build tools
• Scala compiler
• Scala REPL
• Packages & code organization
• Variables, literals, & expressions
• Type ascriptions
• Classes & traits
• Methods
• Inheritance
• Case classes & sealed traits
• Functions
• Generics
• Collections
• Option, Either, & Try
• Basic implicits
• Type aliases