Scala Advanced, Part 1 - The Scala Type System

Name: Scala Advanced, Part 1 - The Scala Type System
Rating: 4.7 (321 reviews)

Mutable State, Scala Type System In-Depth, Implicits

(321 ratings)

2,730 students

Created by Dick Wall

Last updated 11/2018

English

What you'll learn

Use the full Scala type system to correctly implement general purpose re-usable libraries and APIs for other Scala developers to use easily.

Requirements

A day-to-day working knowledge of the Scala language equivalent to completing Escalate Software's Scala Applied course is recommended before starting on the advanced course
You will need to set up your laptop with Scala, SBT and IntelliJ IDEA with Scala support by following the setup instructions
Experience with other statically typed languages (e.g. Java or C#) will be helpful but not required.

Description

Scala Advanced, Part 1

The Escalate Software Scala Advanced course is intended for experienced Scala developers looking to improve their skills, particularly for library and API design and development. It covers topics needed to be effective in producing high quality, correct, powerful and flexible Scala libraries that are still easy to use by others.

Part 1 provides in depth knowledge of the Scala type system, an important precursor to any library development. We start off with a look at the dangers, and safe use, of mutable shared state in Scala, covering properties and caching. From there we delve into the Scala type system including:

Generics
Co- and Contra-Variance
Upper and Lower Bounds
Type Inference
Type Parameters and Type Members
Path Dependent Types
Refinement Types
Structural Types
Recursive Types
F-bounded Polymorphism

The final two modules then move on to the secondary Implicits type system that augments the regular Scala type system, covering:

Simple Implicit Parameters
Type Classes
Implicit classes, objects and methods
Type Class Composition
Implicit Constraints
=:= and <:<
Implicit Class and Type Tags
Implicit Conversions
extends AnyVal

And more.

Parts 2 and 3 (available separately) cover topics like best practices, idioms, patterns, advanced functional programming, asynchronous programming, parser-combinators, macros, performance profiling and optimization, and much more. These parts rely on information presented during this advanced part 1 course.

Who this course is for:

Scala library and API developers, or Scala developers looking to improve their knowledge and skills

Featured review

Fedor M.

36 courses

7 reviews

a year ago

This course is definitely not for a beginner, however if know Scala at least a little bit - you'll be able to develop your skills dramatically. You'll be able understand HOW and WHY some "this-weird-scala" things work. Some review argue that not everything is explained perfectly, whereas I find everything is presented in an extremely straight way, and any misunderstanding are cleared out ofter some time of exercise with tasks. Is's shame that I found this course right now only.

Dick Wall

Scala Developer

4.6 Instructor Rating
6,038 Reviews
30,052 Students
7 Courses

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