A scalable language

Introduction to Scala

David Venturi

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Ace of spades and jack of spades

  • What is Scala?
  • Why use Scala?
  • Who uses Scala?
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Introduction to Scala

Staircase to mastery

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Introduction to Scala

What is Scala?

Scala is a general-purpose programming language providing support for functional programming and a strong static type system. Designed to be concise, many of Scala's design decisions aimed to address criticisms of Java.

1 http://bit.ly/scala_wikipedia
Introduction to Scala

What is Scala?

Scala is a general-purpose programming language providing support for functional programming and a strong static type system. Designed to be concise, many of Scala's design decisions aimed to address criticisms of Java.

Scala source code is intended to be compiled to Java bytecode, so that the resulting executable code runs on a Java virtual machine.

1 http://bit.ly/jvm_wikipedia
Introduction to Scala

Why use Scala?

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SCAlable LAnguage

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Introduction to Scala

The cathedral vs. the bazaar

Cathedral

Cathedral

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Introduction to Scala

Flexible and convenient

Flexible

  • Scala lets you add new types, collections, and control constructs that feel like they are built-in to the language

Convenient

  • The Scala standard library has a set of convenient predefined types, collections, and control constructs
Introduction to Scala

Who uses Scala?

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Introduction to Scala

Who uses Scala?

Roles

Software Engineer

Data Engineer

Data Scientist

Machine Learning Engineer

Apache Spark logo

Industries

Finance

Tech

Healthcare

So many more...

Introduction to Scala

Who uses Scala?

Stack Overflow Developer Survey results for salary by technology

1 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
Introduction to Scala

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Introduction to Scala

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