Course Description and Objectives

This two-day course will give you an excellent grounding in Scala. It 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.

After having participated in this course you should

• 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

The presentation 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. Therefore it is necessary that you bring your notebook with Java 6 installed.

Program

• Introduction
• First steps in Scala
• OO basics
• Testing
• Collections and functional programming
• For-expressions and loops
• Inheritance and traits
• Pattern Matching
• Dealing with optional values