Basics of programming using Scala
What is Scala?
- Scala is JVM based functional programming language.
Why Scala?
- Even though Scala is there for more than a decade (founded in 2000), it have gained lot of momentum with Spark.
- Spark is completely developed using Scala
- On top of Spark (used for data processing), Scala also have frameworks such as Play to develop web applications
Syllabus
- Brief history of Scala
- REPL or CLI
- Declaring Variables
- Basic programming constructs
- Functions
- Object Oriented Concepts – Classes, Objects, Companion Classes, Case Classes
- Collections
- List
- Set
- Array
- and others
- Tuples
There are many other important topics which are out of the scope for CCA Spark and Hadoop Developer or any Spark based courses for now
- Traits
- Pattern Matching
- Closures
- many more
Before getting into the details of course, make sure to setup the environment for Scala as well as Spark using IntelliJ as IDE.