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Getting Productive with Scala and Akka

The 3 day Core Scala course is aimed at developers who are encountering Scala for the first time and want to understand how their knowledge of object oriented and functional programming idioms carries over to and is deepened in this exciting new language. It also covers how to get started with Akka which is becoming the de facto for any enterprise scale Scala development.

It covers Scala from basic syntax and language constructs, through its distinctive object oriented characteristics and on to functional programming styles and pattern matching as applied to Scala's extensive collections framework.

You would also learn how to apply the tools and services provided by Akka to build high performance, fault tolerant systems that scale.

The course has a practical focus, mixing presentation with in depth hands on labs and exercises.

Day 1

First Brush

Introducing the syntax.

Primitive and simple types.

Control constructs.

Classes and case classes.

Traits.

Objects.

Functions.

Introducing Collections

Mutability & Immutability.

Lists & Buffers.

Sets & Maps.

Arrays.

For comprehensions.

Interoperability with Java.

Collections & Functional Programming

Streams.

Options.

Revisiting for comprehensions.

Higher order functions.

Monads.

Object Oriented Programming in Scala

Objects & modules.

Traits and mixin composition.

Self types.

Parameterized and abstract types.

Structural types.

Day 2

Case Classes & Pattern Matching

Structural recursion.

Kinds of pattern.

Matching with Lists and Options.

Pattern matching vs. higher order functions.

Pattern matching in unexpected places.

Pattern matching generalized.

Starting Akka

Concurrency, scalability and fault tolerance.

Understanding Actors.

Functional Programming in Depth

By name parameters.

Local methods.

Recursion and tail recursion.

Partial functions.

Currying.

Partially applied functions.

The power of folding.

Day 3

Topics Covered

Test Driven Development with Actors.

Actor lifecycle.

Fault Tolerance with Actors.

Messaging with Akka.

Understanding Dispatchers.

Understanding Routers.

Distributed communication with Akka.

Clustering basics.

Course Prerequisites

To benefit from this course you should have 1-2 years experience with an object oriented (eg. Java, C#) or functional (eg. Haskell, Scheme) programming language and a good general understanding of object oriented or functional programming language concepts. Knowledge of any distributed system is a plus.

For more information on the course or a discussion on your custom need, send a mail to hello@knoldus.com.