Overview

Introduction to Scala

A basic, unopinionated introduction to the Scala programming language, structured around the main paradigms that the language supports: object-orientation, generic, implicit and functional programming.

AUDIENCE

• Programmers who want a first contact with the language and its ecosystem of tools

COURSE OUTLINE (16 hours)

MODULE 1. The language and tools

• The Scala Repl
• Jupyter notebooks and ammonite scripts
• Building and testing tools

MODULE 2. Object-oriented programming in Scala

• Classes and objects
• Inheritance and traits

MODULE 3. Generic programming in Scala

• Generic classes & methods
• Variance and contravariance annotations

MODULE 4. Implicits in Scala

• Implicit values & classes
• Patterns: ad-hoc overloading, dependency injection, type-level programming 

MODULE 5. Functional programming in Scala

• Functions & algebraic data types
• The Scala Collections library