Scala Applied, Part 1 (Udemy.com)

The course itself was very good. that aside, after having been asked to take this in order to become "familiar" with Scala, as a go developer this language gives me cold sweats - and frankly reminds me of Perl, where there are multiple ways to do the same thing and a lot of "magic" available if only you are familiar enough with the seeming corner cases of the language. I hope I will not be required to actually write anything in this.

Really enjoyed learning Scala basics with Dick Wall. He designed the course extremely well. The only thing I expected is that implicits could have been covered with more examples as it is a difficult topic. Other than that, he took the course very smoothly and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you!

This is the hands down the best programming course I have taken. Instruction is broken into small, well explained, well ordered chunks with relevant (test driven) exercises that consolidate learning. It’s clear the instructor has a deep understanding of Scala and rare ability to convey concepts so they appear simple and are easy to grasp. Where more complex concepts will be taught later in the course he delineates that content and emphasises the mental model learners should expect to have at each stage.

This course is easy-to-follow and full-featured course about Scala programming language. The lecturer teaches the core concepts and semantics of the language without any steep escalation of learning plus well organized exercises and quizzes. I highly recommend this course if you learn Scala from the basic, and truly understand the language. Thanks for the great introduction of the language!

For me it seems quite a nice course. Since I'm having a much experience in other languages it was quite simple for me to understand main ideas and paradigms. And actually this course is more about learning these ideas and paradigms, than about the "classical" learning the language from the scratch "as your first language". So if you just starting you way as a programmer and this is you first language - this course is definitely not for you. Exercises was quite nice but simple and sometimes not connected to context of modules we passed. Also I don't see much activity in comments from author. That's really bad from my point of view.

Course attempts to cover a good amount of basic concepts. Examples are boring and hard to follow. They are either trivial or too numeric to follow. I went to sleep many times. Look at how Venkat Subramaniam pick great example to make things easier to understand and. Examples in this course is too numeric and doesn't really mean anything. Examples should also time to time relate to common problems we face. It is a great attempt to teach scala. Probably one of the best course out there but it could be better.

I have been writing in Scala for over a year and a half. I'm encountering a new code base after a job change and noticed it uses other powers of Scala, e.g., Futures, that I haven't used before. I found Dick Wall's set of courses to get me up to speed on these things. I am starting on "Stairway to Scala Applied, Part 1". I am skipping past certain topics I am confident in, but even the ones in which I have experience I watch and find Wall's explanations helpful. As a developer, sometimes you rack up working experience with tools, but don't always know the inner workings behind those tools. Wall's explanations help me up my game with better understanding the tools I already use, and further understand tools I haven't yet used. I'm 50% of the way through this course and am eager to get through more of it and his other ones.

I've enjoyed this great introductory course about Scala, I did brush my skills about Scala thus far, I recommend this course for any new comer to the language. The instructor is very engaging and experienced (I've already watch a dozens of his conferences on Youtube). I've learnt a lot although I've already read a lot of books about Scala already.

I think It is rather hard to find a good course for experienced programmers. This course certainly moved in that direction. I like tha fact that it is ind of a practical course with topics well explained. I am really looking forward to part II. The only thing I would make better are exercises. I think they could be more challenging. Otherwise, thank you!

This course is very well put together. There's a good mix of lectures, quizzes and exercises and the instructor is really knowledgeable. To get the most from it, print out the slides and take notes as you watch the videos ... and definitely do the exercises.