Learn By Example: Scala

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: You, This Course and Us

Lecture 1: You, This Course and Us

Chapter 2: Introducing Scala

Lecture 1: Introducing Scala: Java's Cool Cousin

Lecture 2: Installing Scala

Lecture 3: Examples 1 and 2 – Hello world

Lecture 4: Example 3 – Mutable and Immutable ‘variables’

Lecture 5: Example 4 – Type Inference

Lecture 6: Example 5 – String Operations

Lecture 7: Example 6 – A Unified Type System

Lecture 8: Example 7 – Emptiness in Scala

Lecture 9: Example 8 – Type Operations

Chapter 3: Expressions or Statements?

Lecture 1: Module Outline – Loops and Conditionals

Lecture 2: Example 9 – Statements v Expressions

Lecture 3: Example 10 – Defining Values and Variables via Expressions

Lecture 4: Example 11 – Nested Scopes in Expression Blocks

Lecture 5: Example 12 – If/Else expression blocks

Lecture 6: Example 13 – match expressions

Lecture 7: Example 14 – match expressions: Pattern guards & OR-ed expressions

Lecture 8: Example 15 – match expressions: catch-all to match-all

Lecture 9: Example 16 – match expressions: down casting with Pattern Variables

Lecture 10: Example 17 – for loops can be expressions OR statements

Lecture 11: Example 18 – for loops: 2 types of iterators

Lecture 12: Example 19 – for loops with if conditions: Pattern Guards

Lecture 13: Example 21 – while/do-while Loops: Pure Statements

Chapter 4: First Class Functions

Lecture 1: Module Outline – Functions

Lecture 2: First Class Functions

Lecture 3: Functions v Methods

Lecture 4: Example 22 – Functions are named, reusable expressions

Lecture 5: Example 23 – Assigning Methods to Values

Lecture 6: Example 24 – Invoking Functions with Tuples as Parameters

Lecture 7: Example 25 – Named Function Parameters

Lecture 8: Example 26 – Parameter Default Values

Lecture 9: Example 27 – Type Parameters: Parametric Polymorphism

Lecture 10: Example 28 – Vararg Parameters

Lecture 11: Example 29 – Procedures are named, reusable statements

Lecture 12: Example 30 – Functions with No Inputs

Lecture 13: Example 31 – Nested Functions

Lecture 14: Example 32 – Higher Order Functions

Lecture 15: Example 33 – Anonymous Functions (aka Function Literals)

Lecture 16: Example 34 – Placeholder Syntax

Lecture 17: Example 35 – Partially Applied Functions

Lecture 18: Example 36 – Currying

Lecture 19: Example 37 – By-Name Parameters

Lecture 20: Example 38 – Closures

Chapter 5: Collections

Lecture 1: Module Outline – Collections

Lecture 2: Example 39 – Tuples

Lecture 3: Example 40 – Creating Lists

Lecture 4: Example 41 – Simple List Operations

Lecture 5: Example 42 – Higher Order Functions Introduced

Lecture 6: Example 43 – Scan, ScanFold,ScanReduce

Lecture 7: Example 44 – Fold, FoldLeft, FoldRight

Lecture 8: Example 45 – Reduce,ReduceLeft,ReduceRight

Lecture 9: Example 46 – Other, Simpler Reduce Operations

Lecture 10: Example 47 – Sets and Maps

Lecture 11: Example 48 – Mutable Collections, and Arrays

Lecture 12: Example 49 – Option Collections

Lecture 13: Example 50 – Error handling with util.Try

Chapter 6: Classes and Objects

Lecture 1: Module Outline – Classes

Lecture 2: Example 51 – Classes

Lecture 3: Example 52 – Primary v Auxiliary Constructors

Lecture 4: Example 53 – Inheritance from Classes

Lecture 5: Example 54 – Abstract Classes

Lecture 6: Example 55 – Anonymous Classes

Lecture 7: Example 56 – Type Parameters

Lecture 8: Example 57 – Lazy Values

Lecture 9: Example 58 – Default Methods with apply

Lecture 10: Example 59 – Operators

Lecture 11: Example 60 – Access Modifiers

Lecture 12: Example 61 – Singleton Objects

Lecture 13: Example 62 – Companion Objects

Lecture 14: Example 63 – Traits

Lecture 15: Example 64 – Case Classes

Lecture 16: Example 65 – Self Types