steve-e/scala-syncs

Scala Syncs

This repo holds some code examples from scala mentoring sessions, and related information.

The Scala Syncs were knowlege sharing sessions to experienced data engineers that were new to scala.

Earlier meetings were based around ScalaTests showcasing particular features and techniques. Later on the meetings were based around markdown pages generated with mdoc

Build Docs

Build the docs by running

sbt docs/mdoc

Sync example code

• CaseClassTest
• CaseObjectsTest
• SimpleErrorHandlingTest
• CatsIntroTest

Sync Docs

Docs with embedded scala execution

• Implicits
• Polymorphism
• More on Companion Objects
• Map and foreach
• Type Variance
• Monad
• More Monads
• Scala Concurrency Introduction
• More on Cats type classes in Cats Effect
• Creating our own custom type classes
• Cats Effect: Fibers and Errors
• Validated and Applicative
• Testing

Absolute basics of Category theory

• What is a category
• Functor

scala

• Programming in Scala

Functional programming and Cats resources

• Cats documentation
• Herding Cats website
• Scala with Cats book in various formats
• Functional Programming in Scala book which is not free