Functional Program Design in Scala

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Created by: Martin Odersky

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Course Description

In this course you will learn how to apply the functional programming style in the design of larger applications. You'll get to know important new functional programming concepts, from lazy evaluation to structuring your libraries using mods. We'll work on larger and more involved examples, from state space exploration to random testing to discrete circuit simulators. You'll also learn some best practices on how to write good Scala code in the real world.Several parts of this course deal with the question how functional programming interacts with mutable state. We will explore the consequences of combining functions and state. We will also look at purely functional altertives to mutable state, using infinite data structures or functional reactive programming.Learning Outcomes. By the end of this course you will be able to:- recognize and apply design principles of functional programs,- design functional libraries and their APIs,- competently combine functions and state in one program,- understand reasoning techniques for programs that combine functions and state,- write simple functional reactive applications.Recommended background: You should have at least one year programming experience. Proficiency with Java or C# is ideal, but experience with other languages such as C/C++, Python, Javascript or Ruby is also sufficient. You should have some familiarity using the command line. This course is intended to be taken after Functional Programming Principles in Scala: https://www.coursera.org/learn/progfun1.

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Time: 10.5h

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Martin Odersky

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Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has been working on programming languages for most of his career. He first studied structured and object-oriented programming as a PhD student of Niklaus Wirth, then fell in love with functional programming while working as a post doc at IBM and Yale. When Java came out, he started to add functional programming constructs to the new platform. This led to Pizza and GJ and eventually to Java 5 with generics. During that time he also developed javac, the current reference compiler for Java. Over the last 10 years, Martin worked on unifying object-oriented and functional programming in the Scala language.