École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Functional Program Design in Scala

Martin Odersky

Instructor: Martin Odersky

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
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Intermediate level
Some related experience required
Flexible schedule
Approx. 35 hours
Learn at your own pace
89%
Most learners liked this course

What you'll learn

  • Recognize and apply design principles of functional programs

  • Design functional libraries and their APIs

  • Write simple functional reactive applications

  • Understand reasoning techniques for programs that combine functions and state

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There are 5 modules in this course

We'll start by revisiting some concepts that we have learned from Principles of Functional Programming in Scala; collections, pattern matching, and functions. We'll then touch on for-comprehensions, a powerful way in Scala to traverse a list, process it, and return a new list. We'll see how to do queries with for-comprehensions as well as how the for-comprehension is "desugared" into calls to higher-order functions by the Scala compiler. Finally, we'll discuss what monads are, and how to verify that the monad laws are satisfied for a number of examples.

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8 videos8 readings3 programming assignments

This week we'll revisit performance issues caused by combinatorial search, and we'll discover an important concept in functional programming that can address these issues: laziness. We'll also learn a little bit about proofs on trees; in particular, we'll see how to extend structural induction to trees.

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6 videos2 programming assignments

This week, we’ll learn how to make the compiler write programs for us! We’ll see how the compiler can summon program fragments based on their type and how this mechanism can be used to implement a new form of polymorphism (type classes).

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7 videos5 readings3 assignments2 programming assignments

This week, we'll learn about state and side-effects. Through a rich example, we'll learn programming patterns for managing state in larger programs. We'll also learn about for-loops and while-loops in Scala.

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5 videos

This week we'll learn a number of important programming patterns via examples, starting with the observer pattern, and then going on to functional reactive programming.

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6 videos2 programming assignments

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Martin Odersky
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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