Day 1

• Guided tour of Scala
  • Origins of language
  • Main Features
  • Use Scala use cases
  • Sell Scala to his boss
• Getting started with Scala
  • Tooling:
  • Installation of Scala
  • Installing an IDE: Eclipse or IntelliJ
  • SBT
  • Scala for Java gurus
• Basics of functional programming
  • High order functions
  • Mutable objects or not
  • Recursion
  • Lab:
  • Using the REPL
  • Implementation of a simple project with SBT
  • set up a multi module project with SBT

Day 2

• Object programming in Scala
  • Classes and singleton
  • Inheritance and traits
  • Polymorphism and redefinition of methods
  • Scala standard class hierarchy
  • Packages & imports
• Pattern matching
  • Lab:
  • Setting up the pattern matching
  • Case classes
  • Creation of a mini application

Day 3: Utilities

• XML support
• Regexp support
• Actors: principles and setting up
• Communicate with Java
• Lab: actors