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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

Summary


This chapter was interesting because we learned the details of Scala classes and object implementation. We started with what classes means in Scala, how we can declare them, and use them. Then we talked about objects as singleton instances in Scala. We then talked about interesting companion objects, which led us to case classes. We learned that case classes not only give us the conciseness we want but can also be very useful in scenarios where we may want to do pattern matching over instances. Finally, we discussed all the methods and goodies that case classes provide.

In the next chapter, we'll take our knowledge of object-oriented Scala to the next level and talk more about traits, inheritance, and a lot more.