Scala Online Training Course Content

• Introduction to Scala Programming
• Scala and Java - which to use, when and why
• Overview of Scala development tools (Eclipse, Scalac, Sbt, Maven, Gradle, REPL, ScalaTest)
• Overview of Scala Frameworks
• Scala Syntax Fundamentals
• Data types
• Variables
• Operators
• Functions and lambdas
• Scala Statements / Loops / Expressions
• Extending Builtins
• Easy I/O in Scala
• Object-Oriented Programming with Scala
• Defining and using classes
• Companion objects
• val and def
• Exception Handling
• Inheritance and the Object Hierarchy
• Traits
• Packages and package objects
• Test-Driven Development (TDD) with Scala
• Writing good JUnit Tests
• Using ScalaTest
• Functional Programming with Scala
• What is functional programming?
• Pure & First Class Functions
• Anonymous Functions
• Higher Order Functions
• Currying, Closures & Partials
• Functional concepts & TDD
• Collections and Generics
• Java and Scala Collections
• Mutable and immutable collections
• Using generic types
• Lists, tuples and dictionaries
• Functional programming and collections
• map, fold and filter
• Flattening collections and flatMap
• The "For Comprehension"
• Pattern Matching with Scala
• Using "Match"
• Case Classes
• Wildcards
• Case Constructors & Deep Matching
• Using Extractors
• Serialization using Scala & XML
• Parsing XML
• Native Scala XML API
• Converting objects to and from XML
• Mini Project to test the awareness of the students

Advanced Scala Course Contents

• Working with Types in Scala
• Review of traits
• Structural types
• Self types
• Path-dependent types
• Covariance and contravariance
• Type bounds
• Functional Programming
• Tail Recursion
• Currying and Partial Function Application
• Closures
• Partial Functions
• Lazy evaluation
• Scala Collections
• Working with Streams
• Manifests and class tags
• Advanced Pattern Matching in Scala
• Deep Matching
• Using Extractors
• Scala Implicits
• Implicit arguments
• Implicit conversions
• Context and view bounds
• Type classes
• Functional Exception Handling
• Traditional exception handling
• A functional alternative
• Using Try with for comprehensions