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Functional Programming Principles in Scala

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Created by: Martin Odersky

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Course Description

Functional programming is becoming increasingly widespread in industry. This trend is driven by the adoption of Scala as the main programming language for many applications. Scala fuses functional and object-oriented programming in a practical package. It interoperates seamlessly with both Java and Javascript. Scala is the implementation language of many important frameworks, including Apache Spark, Kafka, and Akka. It provides the core infrastructure for sites such as Twitter, Tumblr and also Coursera.In this course you will discover the elements of the functional programming style and learn how to apply them usefully in your daily programming tasks. You will also develop a solid foundation for reasoning about functiol programs, by touching upon proofs of invariants and the tracing of execution symbolically.The course is hands on; most units introduce short programs that serve as illustrations of important concepts and invite you to play with them, modifying and improving them. The course is complemented by a series programming projects as homework assignments.Learning Outcomes. By the end of this course you will be able to:- understand the principles of functional programming,- write purely functional programs, using recursion,pattern matching, and higher-order functions,- combine functional programming with objects and classes,- design immutable data structures,- reason about properties of functions,- understand generic types for functional programsRecommended 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.
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Martin Odersky

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.

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By Bogdan P on 4-Aug-19

It's brilliant in rewiring a mind from OOP to functional thinking.

By Ivan P on 29-Jun-19

The course was awesome, but some tasks(llike huffman encoding) are really hardcore. Also, there are not that much information on implicits

By Alex L on 14-Apr-19

A great start. Challenging while informative. The last assignment in the last week really made me think about my approach from a functional programming perspective rather than a procedural approach. It also really made me focus on how to ensure that the types of responses going into a list are of the most compatible narrowest type needed for the task i'm performing. I'm excited to sink my teeth into the next class.

By Russell W on 13-Apr-19

Amazing. Very useful how it started off throwing you into the deep end with recursion, to help jar your mind, opening it to functional.... for those of us who coded imperative for many years

By James S on 12-Apr-19

Really well organized content, lots of practical application

By Leow Y Y on 7-Apr-19

The star of this course is the programming assignments which are well-crafted and challenging. Excellent teaching and introduction to Scala!

By Pavel P on 31-Mar-19

Great view on Functional programming. Thank you for course

By Himanshu S on 28-Mar-19

Excellent

By Sandip G on 26-Mar-19

Course is very helpful to get understand the Scala in functional programming way. I have seen the videos twice as well as read a lot about functional programming paradigm. Concepts are explained in detailed. Exercises are very well designed, are conceptual and challenging.

By Zhitao Z on 23-Mar-19

good course about functional programing in scala

By Pravin on 23-Mar-19

It is "the best course" to start understanding functional programming and get ur feet wet with scala.I really loved the way in which concepts have been explained , it has really helped in writing code in functional way.

By Subodh C on 23-Mar-19

Wonderfully taught. Thank you for teaching and creating Scala !

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