Scala

Scala   

• About Scala
• Setting up SBT
• The Language

Scala Syntax   

• Primitive and simple types
• Control structures
• Better Access Modifiers
• Lazy Values

Objects and Classes   

• Classes and Objects
• Nulls, Nothing, and Units
• Case Classes
• Abstract Classes and Basic Traits

Functions   

• Functions and Higher Order Functions
• Functions from Objects
• Partial Functions
• Recursion

Collections and Monads   

• Lists
• Buffers
• Sets
• Maps
• Arrays
• Streams
• Vectors and Tries
• Options
• For-Comprehensions

Composition and Inheritance   

• Traits
• Parameterized Types and Abstract types
• Self types
• Path Dependent Types
• Type Safe Duck Typing with Structural types
• Covariance, Invariance, Contravariance
• Manifests and Reflections

Pattern matching   

• Matching Lists, Options, Tuples, and Regular Expressions
• Pattern Guards
• Case Class and Sealed Case Class Matching
• Custom Pattern Matching with Extractors

Implicits and Type Classes   

• Implicit Conversions
• Implicit Parameters
• Type Classes
• View Bounds
• Scala and Java Interoperability

Testing with Scala   

• ScalaTest with Easy Mock
• Specs2 with Mockito
• ScalaMock
• ScalaCheck

Engineering with Scala   

• Dependency Injection with Java frameworks
• Functional Patterns
• Cake Pattern
• Higher Kinded Types and Existentials

Actors and Concurrent Programming   

• Setting up Akka
• About Akka
• Actors & Supervision