Scala: Advanced Functional Programming Training Course

Introduction

• Who uses Scala?
• Developing large-scale, purely-functional programs

Overview of Functional Programming in Scala

• Higher-Order Functions
• Combinators
• Polymorphic Functions

Mastering Scala Types

• Product types & Sum types
• Supertypes & Subtypes
• Universals & Existentials
• Higher-Kinded Types
• Type Lambdas

Mastering Scala Type Classes

• Classes & Instances
• Tricks with Implicits
• Polymorphic Constraints

Case Study: Highly-stateful programs with complex external systems

Coding Exercise

Working with Data

• Immutable Data & Recursion
• Catamorphisms & Church Encoding
• Fixed-Point Data
• Recursion Schemes

Advanced Pattern Matching in Scala

• Deep matching
• Using extractors

Case Study: Scala and Big Data

Coding Exercise

Using Functional Patterns

• Options, Eithers & Validations
• Semigroups & Monoids
• Functors
• Applicatives
• Monads
• Foldables & Traversables
• Lenses

Working with Effects

• IO
• State
• Reader
• Combining Effects

Case Study

• TBD

Coding Exercise

Functional Architecture

• Modern Architecture for FP
• Reified Computation & Deferred Evaluation
• Compositional Evaluators
• Optimization Techniques
• Purely Functional Mocking

Libraries and DSLs

• Custom control structures with by-name parameters
• Building well-designed libraries and internal DSLs

Functional Exception Handling

• Traditional exception handling
• Functional exception handling
• Using Try with For comprehensions

Final Coding Exercise and Evaluation

Closing Remarks