Lightbend Scala Language - Expert - Trond Bjerkestrand

Overview

This two day course introduces Scala developers to advanced Scala language concepts

The power of Scala’s type system
Advanced object functional programming
Implicits
Leverage rich language features to create well-designed libraries or DSL’s

Objectives

After having participated in this course you should understand:

The power of Scala’s type system
Advanced object functional programming
Implicits
Leverage rich language features to create well-designed libraries or Domain Specific Languages (DSL's)

Prerequisites

Master the concepts covered in the Lightbend Scala Language - Professional training course.
Have at least 6 months of practical experience with Scala

Agenda

Short Recap of important basics
Object-Functional programming in depth

Recursion and tail-recursion
Partial functions and Partial function literals
Curried methods, partially applied functions and lifting methods into functions
Folding

Mastering the type system

Scala type hierarchy
Custom value classes
Type parameters
Variance
Lower and upper bounds
Path-dependent types
Static duck-typing
Phantom types

Explicitly implicit

Implicit conversions
Implicit resolution, scopes and precedence
Library extension via implicit (value) classes
Implicit parameters
Type classes
Context Bounds
View bounds
Class tags

Domain Specific Languages (DSL's)

By-name parameters
Currying
Higher-order functions
Dot-free operator notation
Implicit conversions

* Custom Scala Collections

Uniform return type principle
Collection Builders
**Like** traits
Type classes for the tricky cases

The training is delivered in cooperation with Lightbend. | Please get in touch to schedule a private session.