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Learning Scala Programming

By : Vikash Sharma
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Learning Scala Programming

By: Vikash Sharma

Overview of this book

Scala is a general-purpose programming language that supports both functional and object-oriented programming paradigms. Due to its concise design and versatility, Scala's applications have been extended to a wide variety of fields such as data science and cluster computing. You will learn to write highly scalable, concurrent, and testable programs to meet everyday software requirements. We will begin by understanding the language basics, syntax, core data types, literals, variables, and more. From here you will be introduced to data structures with Scala and you will learn to work with higher-order functions. Scala's powerful collections framework will help you get the best out of immutable data structures and utilize them effectively. You will then be introduced to concepts such as pattern matching, case classes, and functional programming features. From here, you will learn to work with Scala's object-oriented features. Going forward, you will learn about asynchronous and reactive programming with Scala, where you will be introduced to the Akka framework. Finally, you will learn the interoperability of Scala and Java. After reading this book, you'll be well versed with this language and its features, and you will be able to write scalable, concurrent, and reactive programs in Scala.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Conditional statements


We've already used conditionals many times. It's hard to have your program make sense without a conditional or logical statement. These statements help keep the flow of the program intact. Moreover, logic implementation is also easier with the use of these. Scala supports if and else conditional statements.

The if else conditional expression

In Scala, you can use if else to control program flow. The generic syntax for an if else statement goes as follows:

if (condition (is true)) 
          ... //Block of code to be executed 
else 
          ... //Block of code to be executed 

scala> val age = 17 
age: Int = 17 

scala> if(age > 18) println("You're now responsible adult.") else println("You should grow up.") 
You should grow up. 

Above, we defined a variable age with value 17. In the next line, we checked a condition age > 18. If age is greater than 18 then we printed some string. You're now a responsible adult, or some other string. Instead of just printing...