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Jonas Boner's Pragmatic Real-World Scala (SCALA-ACTORS-01-02)

CODE: SCALA-ACTORS-01-02 DURATION: 2 DAY/S

Are you already familiar with using Scala in your applications? Would like to now dig deeper and learn how to get the full power out of this scalable language? In this Pragmatic Real-World Scala course, designed by Typesafe, you will get to know advanced features like implicit conversions and the details of the type system. Of course, numerous hands-on labs will make sure that you can build a thorough understanding.

LEARN HOW TO:

After having participated in this Pragmatic Real-World Scala course you will have all the skills required to construct or extend high-level Scala libraries, frameworks and design DSLs in Scala.

PROGRAMME

This Pragmatic Real-World Scala course is a very practical workshop that will mix theory and practice, presentation and hands-on labs.

Bootstrapping

Short recap of important basics
Initial state of the ScalaTrain case study

Explicitly implicit

Implicit conversions
Implicit parameters
Type classes

Functional programming in depth

Recursion and tail recursion
Currying
The power of folds

Typing types

Type parameters
Variance
Upper bounds and view bounds
Lower bounds
Manifests
Existential types
Type members

Contributing to the Scala collections

Domain specific languages

Internal DSLs
Parser combinators and external DSLs

Putting it all together

Larger group exercise: The Scala spreadsheet

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jonas Bonér is a entrepreneur, programmer, teacher, mentor, speaker and author who spends most of his time hacking on open source and lecturing and speaking at developer conferences world-wide.
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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TYPESAFE CERTIFIED TRAINING PARTNER

IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?

If you are a Java or C# developer or architect and want to learn how to do what you do in java but better, faster and cleaner while learning additional features that Scala brings to development, this course is for you!

COURSE PREREQUISITES

To benefit from this Pragmatic Real-World Scala course, you should have at least basic knowledge of Scala, like covered in the "Fast Track to Scala" course.

Important - Please note: Delegates are requested to bring their own laptop for this course. If you are unable to bring a laptop for the course, please contact the sales team on +44 20 7183 9040, or email sales@skillsmatter.com. A full installation guide for the course software will be provided with your course joining instructions.

COURSE LABS & EXERCISES

This Pragmatic Real-World Scala course is a very practical workshop, that will mix theory and practice, presentation and hands-on labs.

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