Scala Development
Start Date | 27th February 2018 |
Course Code | SS17-99 |
Venue | Dublin |
Non-member Full Fee | €900.00 |
Duration | 2 |
Location | Dublin |
Provider | Neueda |
Network Member Subsidised Fee | €660.00 |
- Writing and running Scala programs
- Object orientation in Scala
- Functional programming in Scala
- Using concurrency
- Implementing Domain-Specific Languages
- Best practices and advanced techniques
Introduction to Scala
Overview of Scala
Installing Scala
Writing a simple Scala program
Using the Scala interpreter
Core Scala Syntax
Types and variables
Literals
Tuples
Organising code
Importing types
Abstract types and parameterised types
Operators and Flow Control
Operators and operands
Decision making
Looping
Pattern matching
Enumerations
Traits
Overview of traits
Using traits as mix-ins
Constructing traits
Traits vs. classes
Object-Oriented Programming in Scala
Classes and objects
Visibility
Overriding members of classes and traits
Companion objects
Case classes
Object equality
The Scala Object System
The Predef object
Statics
Sealed class hierarchies
The Scala type hierarchy
Functional Programming in Scala
Overview of functional programming
Recursion
Function literals and closures
Functional data structures
Pattern matching
Partial functions
Implicits
Concurrency and Actors
The problems of shared, synchronized state
Actors
Sending messages to actors
The Mailbox
Threading and events
Domain-Specific Languages
Overview of DSLs
Internal DSLs
External DSLs
Examples
The Scala Type System
Reflection
Parameterised types
Variance under inheritance
Type bounds
Abstract types
Path-dependent types
Value types
Application Design
Annotations
Enumerations
Exceptions
Design trait usage
Design patterns
Andy Olsen - Andy is an experienced software consultant and instructor based in the UK, working mostly in the UK & Ireland. He spends his time developing commercial software applications, delivering advanced software development courses (primarily Java and .NET) and creating training materials.
With .NET his experience goes back to the Beta 1 days and he has extensive experience in many facets of .NET development including WCF, WPF, WF, ASP.NET MVC Web development, and mobile applications. He’s been working in IT for more than 25 years now and has been actively involved in web development for the past decade.
Andy has also spent a lot of time working in the enterprise Java arena, using standard Java EE as well as popular frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, and JSF.
Andy has been creating and delivering training courses in the UK, Europe, the United States, and Asia since 1990. During that time, he has authored many official courses for major software vendors including Microsoft and Oracle. He has also written and reviewed books for Apress and Wrox Press on a variety of technical subjects. In recent years, Andy has been immersed in HTML5 and mobile development. In November 2011 he wrote and delivered a series of HTML5 webcasts for Microsoft for global delivery.