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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

The why and what of TDD


To write expected and well-designed software, we tend to clarify the requirements before starting the development process. With agile practices in place, we translate our requirements to what we call user/functional stories. Transforming these stories into a simple specification of what we're going to implement adds an advantage. That's where writing test cases comes in handy. We specify our program's behavior in the form of test cases and then implement those behaviors.

There are some advantages to this approach. Writing test cases first and then providing the implementation drives the design of our program. It means that as we approach toward implementing the behavior, we can think of our design and code for that. If one of your classes, A, is dependent on another class, B, we can make sure that B is injected into A. In a way, we can make it a practice to follow these ways, for example, inject dependencies from other classes. Apart from driving the design of your...