Working with Big Data these days increasingly requires an understanding of functional programming constructs, because of how easily functional code can be distributed. In this course, Thinking Functionally in Scala, you will learn how to utilize the power of Scala’s functional support, which is often hiding in plain sight. First, you will learn fundamental concepts such as the differences between statements and expressions. Next, you will start to grasp the full implications of first class functions. Finally, you will use higher order methods on collections to create chains of functional composition. When you’re finished with this course, you will write clean, idiomatic Scala code that conforms to the functional paradigm, enabling you to harness the power of distributed computing to work with large datasets.
Author Name: Vitthal Srinivasan
Author Description:
Vitthal has spent a lot of his life studying – he holds Masters Degrees in Math and Electrical Engineering from Stanford, an MBA from INSEAD, and a Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering from Mumbai. He has also spent a lot of his life working – as a derivatives quant at Credit Suisse in New York, then as a quant trader, first with a hedge fund in Greenwich and then on his own, and finally at Google in Singapore and Flipkart in Bangalore. In all these roles, he has written a lot of code, and b… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Thinking Functionally with Scala’s Language Constructs
  37mins
• Composing Functions with Expressions
  36mins
• Placing Functions on Par with Objects as First Class Entities
  38mins
• Encouraging Functional Thinking via Cleverly Designed Collections
  31mins
• Understanding Precisely How Scan, Fold, and Reduce Work
  23mins