Scala

Introduction to Scala Programming

Scala and Java - which to use, when and why

Overview of Scala development tools (Eclipse, Scalac, Sbt, Maven, Gradle, REPL, ScalaTest)

Overview of Scala Frameworks

Scala Syntax Fundamentals

Data types

Variables

Operators

Functions and lambdas

Scala Statements / Loops / Expressions

Extending Builtins

Easy I/O in Scala

Object-Oriented Programming with Scala

Defining and using classes

Companion objects

val and def

Exception Handling

Inheritance and the Object Hierarchy

Traits

Packages and package objects

Test-Driven Development (TDD) with Scala

Writing good JUnit Tests

Using ScalaTest

Functional Programming with Scala

What is functional programming?

Pure & First Class Functions

Anonymous Functions

Higher Order Functions

Currying, Closures & Partials

Functional concepts & TDD

Collections and Generics

Java and Scala Collections

Mutable and immutable collections

Using generic types

Lists, tuples and dictionaries

Functional programming and collections

map, fold and filter

Flattening collections and flatMap

The "For Comprehension"

Pattern Matching with Scala

Using "Match"

Case Classes

Wildcards

Case Constructors & Deep Matching

Using Extractors

Serialization using Scala & XML

Parsing XML

Native Scala XML API

Converting objects to and from XML

Mini Project to test the awareness of the students