It is intended to enable developers, who have at least 3 months programming experience with Scala and feel comfortable to use it in their applications, to fully understand various advanced features of this programming language and how to apply these to create well designed libraries or DSLs using proven practices. Basic knowledge of Scala like covered in Typesafe's Fast Track to Scala course is a prerequisite to understand topics like advanced functional programming, details of the type system, implicits, etc.

After having participated in this course you should

• understand all aspects of the object-functional approach
• know and be able to apply advanced features of Scala's type system
• fully understand implicit conversions
• be confident to design libraries and DSLs

• Setting up the development environment
  • Installing the Scala distribution
  • Installing Eclipse and the Scala plugin
  • Installing sbt
• Bootstrapping
  • Initial state of the ScalaTrain case study
  • Short recap of important basics
• Functional programming in depth
• By-name parameters
• Local methods
• Recursion and tail recursion
• Partial functions
• Currying
• Partially applied functions
• The power of folding
• Mastering the type system
  • Type parameters
  • Variance
  • Lower and upper bounds
  • Type members
  • Path dependent types
  • Refinements and structural typing
  • Phantom types
  • Self types
• Explicitly implicit
  • Implicit conversions
  • Implicit parameters
  • Type classes
  • View bounds
  • Context bounds
  • Manifests
• Internal DSLs
• Contributing to the Scala collections
• Q & A
  • Talking about real-world experiences
  • Scala libraries
  • ...