Scala course

This course is meant as an introduction to the Scala Programming Language for the developers at DANS-KNAW. We will cover the various aspects of Scala in a number of workshops. Each workshop consists of a number of tutorial style demos and some assignments for practicing.

Course content

• Workshop 1 - Introduction to Scala, values, variables, (case) classes, objects and equality
• Workshop 1a - Addendum: overview of use cases for classes and case classes
• Workshop 2 - Inheritance, abstract classes, traits, multiple inheritance and type aliases
• Workshop 3 - Higher-order functions, Option, Try, collections and for-comprehensions
• Workshop 4 - Introduction and basics of reactive programming
• Workshop 5 - Introduction to the 'Cake Pattern' in Scala

Bugs and Feedback

For questions, discussions, bugs and suggestions please use the GitHub Issues.