Scala Applied, Part 3 (Udemy.com)

Part 3 of Scala Applied, covering Scala's core libraries

Created by: Dick Wall

Produced in 2019

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What you will learn

  • Use case classes to get lots of free, best practice functionality
  • Contruct pattern matches like a Scala pro
  • Create and use PartialFunctions
  • Create, and manipulate Futures to avoid blocking and write reactive code
  • Obtain an in-depth grounding in the Scala collections and examine the enormous potential and power in the collections API
  • Know which collections to use in different circumstances to get desired performance
  • Use Option types instead of nulls to virtually eliminate NullPointerExceptions
  • Harness Java libraries effectively and safely, and even improve them in Scala
  • Know how to mix Java and Scala on a project, if you need to
  • Build your project using sbt
  • Write custom tasks and settings in sbt

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Overall Score : 94 / 100

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Course Description

Scala Applied, part 3 is the final part of this Scala programming language course. The course in its entirety is aimed at giving you a full, day-to-day working knowledge of Scala programming, including some of the most common core library APIs.
This part starts with a final language feature for Scala (continuing from the other language features covered in parts 1 and 2). Pattern matching, partial functions and case classes are examined, how they can be used together, and how partial functions can help you avoid certain runtime errors by validating input to a function before you call it.
Then we delve into the collections API in the core libraries (a very in-depth 2 module examination of the capabilities and performance tradeoffs of the various collection options), and finish up with a look at using Scala on Java projects, using Java libraries from Scala and how to harness build tools (particularly SBT)to build your project and even write custom settings and tasks. Following that we look at the Futures API in the core libraries.
This course is also a good lead-in to the Stairway to Scala Advanced 3 part course which concentrates on in-depth language features, higher level functional abstractions, common patterns and idioms, type theory and other more advanced Scala concepts that will be particularly helpful for anyone writing their own libraries and APIs in Scala.
Who this course is for:
Anyone wanting to learn the Scala programming languageThis is part 3 of a 3 part course, please check you have skills equivalent to parts 1 and 2 before taking this courseWe do assume the student has some programming knowledge in a modern programming language other than Scala

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Instructor Details

Dick Wall

Dick is a Scala Developer with over 12 years of Scala development experience, and over 10 years of Scala training experience. As well as consulting in Scala, Dick contributes to a number of open source Scala projects, libraries and tools, and is very active in the Scala developer community. He is also one of the Scalawags, a video podcast about the Scala language. He runs Escalate Software which provides Scala training services. Dick also won the inaugural Phil Bagwell Award for Service to the Scala Community, and managed the Scala Community Process in 2015 through 2016

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Reviews

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By Kevin Zhan on 11/7/2020

Super comprehensive and informative, although I wish at points it could be more concise. Perhaps that's on me for trying to blow through all 3 parts in a row.

By Alex Wang on 9/12/2020

Good contents cover most of Scala basics. I studied Scala a few year back and but Scala is not my daily programming language like others. I took Coursera Scala courses and used Scala for a few projects, but I want to refresh Scala. This is a good course to get refreshed. Dick's courses provided lot of details with concepts. I wish their are more effective exercises.

By Ruben Ramos Quispe on 8/18/2020

Great course!

By PM Acores - 514355026 on 8/17/2020

The course is very well structured and it really helps with the lerning curve

By Virayut Sandhu on 6/26/2020

Nice & Comprehensive

By Jamshed Ansari on 6/13/2020

Super conceptual and easy to understand

By Vineet Malviya on 5/25/2020

Great content

By Senele Sonboy Sithole on 4/27/2020

A good applied course for inter-mediate people.

By Riccardo Torsoli on 4/20/2020

Good course, everyone wants to start scala programming seriously need to follow course like this.

By Maja Bogosavac on 2/27/2020

great!

By Carlos Lopez on 1/25/2020

Very fun and useful course. Highly recommended!

By Gustavo Adolfo Ospina Agudelo on 1/17/2020

The 3 courses are a very good introduction to an amazing language, Scala. I liked the structure of the slides and the explanations of the instructor. The quizzes at the end of modules are also a good idea. Definitely I will look at the advanced series. Thank you!