This two-day Fast Track to Scala course will give you an excellent grounding in Scala.

This course is intended to enable developers or development managers, who are experienced programmers in Java or other production languages like C++, C# or Ruby, to confidently start programming in Scala. No previous knowledge of Scala is assumed.

Although intense, the course ensures you will have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of the language, the tooling and the development process as well as a good appreciation of the more advanced features. If you already have Scala programming experience, then this course could be a useful refresher.

• be a competent user of Scala constructs in application code
• know and be able to apply the functional programming style in Scala
• know how to use the fundamental Scala tools
• be confident to start using Scala in production applications

• Introduction
• First steps in Scala
• OO basics
• Testing
• Collections and functional programming
• For-expressions and loops
• Inheritance and traits
• Pattern Matching
• Dealing with optional values