Scala: Master Scala Programming: 2-In-1

Become a Scala programming expert.Two complete courses in one comprehensive training program.

What you'll learn

Master core language principles such as strings, classes, and types to write better Scala code

Use concurrency to enhance your Scala coding with the Akka framework

Build microservices with Reactive programming

Create advanced functionalities in your code using patterns

Learn to test your code using the spec2 library

Incorporate Functional Programming in your code

Requirements

You should have working knowledge of Scala

Description

Scala is a powerful multi-purpose programming language with a simple object-oriented, functional style. Scala enables you to deconstruct data in intuitive and readable ways, letting you write safely in a few lines of code what other languages can take tens of buggy lines to get across.



This 2-in-1 comprehensive course will help you master various concepts in Scala programming. Save time and trouble by using Scala to build object-oriented, functional, reactive, and concurrent applications.Contents and OverviewThis training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.The first course, Scala Beginner Programming Recipes, shows core language principles covering topics such as strings, classes, types, methods, and arrays. From there, you'll learn about functional programming techniques and how to handle files and processes. You'll go on to master concurrency in Scala by making use of the Akka framework. You'll learn about working with databases, and then about Reactive programming in Scala and how to use it to build robust microservices and distributed systems. You'll also use the Scala REPL to achieve a better feedback mechanism.
The second course, Scala Intermediate Recipes, you’ll get a quick tour into testing will introduce the specs2 library and how to use it to do behavior-driven development in Scala. Then we'll dig into Scala's collections some more; Scala's collections library is vast, and holds many powerful tools for dealing with data. Finally, we'll go through a few tricks that let you get readable and type-safe frameworks in place to describe your domain.


By the end of this training program, you will be well versed with the concepts of Scala and will be able to build highly scalable and distributed, microservice based applications.About the Authors
Antonio Salazar Cardozo is a developer who has led small teams from his classes at Georgia Tech and
through each company he has contributed to. He is a software pragmatist and perfectionist who values
great software that is written for humans first, and loves to help teams find the development and interaction styles that make them deliver the best software to solve the problems they are solving. Between startups and larger companies, he has worked on most aspects of web and non-web systems, and loves to see how each piece of software is received and how it can improve. When he's not leaving honest, extensive code review, he's been known to travel and enjoys visiting both new and old places far from home.

Overview

Section 1: Scala Beginner Programming Recipes

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 Setting Up Ammonite-REPL

Lecture 3 Getting a Basic Scala Project Set Up on the Command Line

Lecture 4 Setting Up Dependencies and Publishing in sbt

Lecture 5 Setting Up a Multi-Module sbt Project

Lecture 6 Importing an sbt Project Into IntelliJ IDEA

Lecture 7 Scala Philosophy: Everything is an Expression

Lecture 8 Basic Data Types: Strings and Numbers

Lecture 9 Functions and Match Statements

Lecture 10 Scala Philosophy: Null Allergies and Option

Lecture 11 Collection Basics

Lecture 12 Basic for Comprehensions

Lecture 13 Generic Collection Operations

Lecture 14 Quick Introduction to Object-Oriented Scala

Lecture 15 Additional Trait Features

Lecture 16 Singletons

Section 2: Scala Intermediate Recipes

Lecture 17 The Course Overview

Lecture 18 Basic Pattern Matching

Lecture 19 Pattern Matching Collections

Lecture 20 Case Classes

Lecture 21 Try/Catch Statements and Pattern Matching

Lecture 22 PartialFunctions

Lecture 23 Custom Match Patterns

Lecture 24 specs2 Basics

Lecture 25 specs2 Matchers

Lecture 26 Mocking with specs2

Lecture 27 Generative Testing

Lecture 28 specs2 Tips and Tricks

Lecture 29 Additional Collection Types

Lecture 30 Basic Mutability with Builders

Lecture 31 Interesting Collection Features

Lecture 32 Sorting Collections

Lecture 33 Intermediate for Comprehensions

Lecture 34 Trait Stacking and Abstract Override

Lecture 35 Function Declaration Tricks

Java developers who are comfortable in working with Scala, budding data scientists, and web developers, who want to learn how to overcome various obstacles in their quest to build robust applications in Scala.