Free Scala Course (9hrs; 120+ exercises; beta access)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8819452
by david04 • 12 years ago
7 0 12 years ago

Want to learn Scala?

Join the "beta access" program in Scala-Academy.com and take the "Pragmatic Scala" video online course:

Register here: http://class.scala-academy.com/registration/40dbcf

Free for now (beta phase)

120+ exercises, and 4+ hours video explanations.

Uses Scala Academy's platform which lets you code compile and run in the browser - no need for local configurations.

Takes 8-9 hours to complete. A fraction of what the coursera course takes.

Covers most topics from basic to advanced Scala, including:

  - Types  

  - Type inference

  - Variables

  - Methods

  - Classes

  - Objects

  - Case Classes

  - Traits

  - Tuples

  - Collections

  - Options

  - String interpolation

  - Apply/Update

  - Anonymous classes

  - Currying

  - Implicits

  - For loops

  - Varargs

  - Partial Functions

  - Match

  - Unapply
(This is the (new) video version of the course, for the live instructed version see here: http://www.scala-academy.com )

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