Scala – Introductory

Provide newcomers with practical skills to write, build, and test Scala applications using functional and object‑oriented paradigms.

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Audience: Developers, architects

Duration: Three days (customizable)

Format: Lectures and hands‑on labs (50 % / 50 %)

Overview

Scala is concise, object‑oriented, functional, concurrent, and JVM‑based. This hands‑on course helps developers learn Scala through guidance and labs.

Objective

Provide newcomers with practical skills to write, build, and test Scala applications using functional and object‑oriented paradigms.

What You Will Learn

Scala language fundamentals and REPL
SBT build tool
Types, collections, control flow, functions
Functional‑programming idioms (map/filter/reduce)
Classes, traits, case classes, pattern matching
Testing, IO, networking
Concurrency with the Akka framework

Course Details

Audience: Developers, architects

Duration: Three days (customizable)

Format: Lectures and hands‑on labs (50 % / 50 %)

Prerequisites:

Comfortable in an object‑oriented environment (Java, etc.)

Setup: Local: JDK 11+, Scala 2.13, IntelliJ/Eclipse/NetBeans • Cloud env optional

Detailed Outline

From Java to Scala
JVM language & interoperability
Quick tour of features
What's new in Scala 3

Scala REPL
SBT
First programs

Variables & immutability
Type inference
Arrays, Lists, Sets, Maps
Performance

if/else, loops, match
Anonymous & higher‑order functions
Pure functions

Evolution & FP basics
Map/Filter/Reduce

Defining classes
Inheritance
Traits
Singletons

Options
Pattern matching

Testing frameworks
Files, URLs, sockets

Actors, concurrency concepts

Team design & implementation