Scala training course

Background and evolution of Scala
    - Core principles and design goals
Working with Scala – tools and development approaches
    - IDEs, alternative tools, REPL
Introducing values and types
    - Immutability, mutability, lazy evaluation, type safety
Classes and Objects
    - Definition and use, singleton and companion objects
    - Inheritance
Case classes and pattern matching
    - Types with value semantics
Abstract types
    - Traits and multiple inheritance
    - Sealed types and their use in data modelling
Functions
    - Functions as objects
Programming with functions – recursion, currying, partial functions
    - Algorithmic styles
Collections and parameterised types
    - Variance, comparison with Java
    - The collections API
    - Other parameterised types – e.g. Option[T]
Functional programming with collections
    - Internal and external iteration
    - Higher order functions
Exceptions
    - Exceptions and functional programming
    - Scala support for exception handling
More about Scala Types
    - Value classes and their use
    - Introduction to dependent types
Implicit
    - Implicit views and type conversions
    - Implicit parameters
    - Type classes
Concurrency and asynchronous programming
    - Working with Futures
    - Overview of actors