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Scala has the basic control structures you’d expect to find in a programming language, including:
- if/then/else
forloops- try/catch/finally
It also has a few unique constructs, including:
matchexpressionsforexpressions
We’ll demonstrate these in the following lessons.
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Contents
- Introduction
- Prelude꞉ A Taste of Scala
- Preliminaries
- Scala Features
- Hello, World
- Hello, World - Version 2
- The Scala REPL
- Two Types of Variables
- The Type is Optional
- A Few Built-In Types
- Two Notes About Strings
- Command-Line I/O
- Control Structures
- The if/then/else Construct
- for Loops
- for Expressions
- match Expressions
- try/catch/finally Expressions
- Scala Classes
- Auxiliary Class Constructors
- Supplying Default Values for Constructor Parameters
- A First Look at Scala Methods
- Enumerations (and a Complete Pizza Class)
- Scala Traits and Abstract Classes
- Using Scala Traits as Interfaces
- Using Scala Traits Like Abstract Classes
- Abstract Classes
- Scala Collections
- The ArrayBuffer Class
- The List Class
- The Vector Class
- The Map Class
- The Set Class
- Anonymous Functions
- Common Sequence Methods
- Common Map Methods
- A Few Miscellaneous Items
- Tuples
- An OOP Example
- sbt and ScalaTest
- The most used scala build tool (sbt)
- Using ScalaTest with sbt
- Writing BDD Style Tests with ScalaTest and sbt
- Functional Programming
- Pure Functions
- Passing Functions Around
- No Null Values
- Companion Objects
- Case Classes
- Case Objects
- Functional Error Handling in Scala
- Concurrency
- Scala Futures
- Where To Go Next