Functional programming is becoming increasingly widespread in industry. This trend is driven by the adoption of Scala as the main programming language for many applications. Scala fuses functional and object-oriented programming in a practical package. It interoperates seamlessly with both Java and Javascript. Scala is the implementation language of many important frameworks, including Apache Spark, Kafka, and Akka. It provides the core infrastructure for sites such as Twitter, Tumblr and also Coursera.
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Functional Programming in Scala SpecializationÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneAbout this Course
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At least one year of programming (in any language)
Approx. 45 hours to complete
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27%
started a new career after completing these courses
26%
got a tangible career benefit from this course
12%
got a pay increase or promotion
Shareable Certificate
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100% online
Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
Course 1 of 5 in the
Flexible deadlines
Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
Intermediate Level
At least one year of programming (in any language)
Approx. 45 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: English, Korean, Serbian, French
Offered by
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
13 hours to complete
Getting Started + Functions & Evaluation
Get up and running with Scala on your computer. Complete an example assignment to familiarize yourself with our unique way of submitting assignments. In this week, we'll learn the difference between functional imperative programming. We step through the basics of Scala; covering expressions, evaluation, conditionals, functions, and recursion
13 hours to complete
11 videos (Total 139 min), 7 readings, 4 quizzes
11 videos
Tools Setup for Linux22m
Tools Setup for Mac OS X21m
Tools Setup for Windows18m
Lecture 1.1 - Programming Paradigms14m
Lecture 1.2 - Elements of Programming14m
Lecture 1.3 - Evaluation Strategies and Termination4m
Lecture 1.4 - Conditionals and Value Definitions8m
Lecture 1.5 - Example: square roots with Newton's method11m
Lecture 1.6 - Blocks and Lexical Scope8m
Lecture 1.7 - Tail Recursion12m
7 readings
Tools Setup (Please read)10m
Cheat Sheet10m
IntelliJ IDEA Tutorial10m
SBT tutorial and Submission of Assignments (Please read)10m
Learning Resources10m
Scala Tutorial10m
Scala Style Guide10m
1 practice exercise
Learning check-in30m
7 hours to complete
Higher Order Functions
This week, we'll learn about functions as first-class values, and higher order functions. We'll also learn about Scala's syntax and how it's formally defined. Finally, we'll learn about methods, classes, and data abstraction through the design of a data structure for rational numbers.
7 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 84 min)
7 videos
Lecture 2.2 - Currying14m
Lecture 2.3 - Example: Finding Fixed Points10m
Lecture 2.4 - Scala Syntax Summary4m
Lecture 2.5 - Functions and Data11m
Lecture 2.6 - More Fun With Rationals15m
Lecture 2.7 - Evaluation and Operators16m
7 hours to complete
Data and Abstraction
This week, we'll cover traits, and we'll learn how to organize classes into hierarchies. We'll cover the hierarchy of standard Scala types, and see how to organize classes and traits into packages. Finally, we'll touch upon the different sorts of polymorphism in Scala.
7 hours to complete
3 videos (Total 66 min)
3 videos
Lecture 3.2 - How Classes Are Organized20m
Lecture 3.3 - Polymorphism21m
8 hours to complete
Types and Pattern Matching
This week we'll learn about the relationship between functions and objects in Scala; functions *are* objects! We'll zoom in on Scala's type system, covering subtyping and generics, and moving on to more advanced aspects of Scala's type system like variance. Finally, we'll cover Scala's most widely used data structure, Lists, and one of Scala's most powerful tools, pattern matching.
8 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 117 min)
7 videos
Lecture 4.2 - Functions as Objects8m
Lecture 4.3 - Subtyping and Generics15m
Lecture 4.4 - Variance (Optional)21m
Lecture 4.5 - Decomposition16m
Lecture 4.6 - Pattern Matching19m
Lecture 4.7 - Lists16m
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING PRINCIPLES IN SCALA
by AJSep 23, 2019
As expected Martin is awesome in explaining principle of functional programming. I have started reading the book as well to make sure I keep up with the knowledge which I have gained from this course.
by RSOct 8, 2016
Really good explanation by the instructor. Good assignments. The assignments gave a good insights into functional programming. I loved the way the problems were decomposed into neat smaller functions.
by VPSep 13, 2018
It took me much longer than expected to finish the course and sometimes it made me feel stupid and helpless. Diving into functional programming was a mind bending experience, totally worth time spent!
by RBDec 8, 2019
One of the very few courses and Specialization that I highly recommend simply because of the number of materials covered in the best quality possible by the instructor. It's simply an amazing course.
About the Functional Programming in Scala Specialization
Discover how to write elegant code that works the first time it is run.
This Specialization provides a hands-on introduction to functional programming using the widespread programming language, Scala. It begins from the basic building blocks of the functional paradigm, first showing how to use these blocks to solve small problems, before building up to combining these concepts to architect larger functional programs. You'll see how the functional paradigm facilitates parallel and distributed programming, and through a series of hands on examples and programming assignments, you'll learn how to analyze data sets small to large; from parallel programming on multicore architectures, to distributed programming on a cluster using Apache Spark. A final capstone project will allow you to apply the skills you learned by building a large data-intensive application using real-world data.
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