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Functional Programming in Scala Specialization
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Functional Programming in Scala Specialization

Program on a Higher Level. Write elegant functional code to analyze data that's big or small

Martin Odersky
Prof. Heather Miller
Prof. Viktor Kuncak

Instructors: Martin Odersky

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4.7

(6,897 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

5 months
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Write purely functional programs using recursion, pattern matching, and higher-order functions

  • Design immutable data structures

  • Write programs that effectively use parallel collections to achieve performance

  • Manipulate data with Spark and Scala

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