Les infos clés
En résumé
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. In this course you will discover the elements of the functional programming style and learn how to apply them usefully in your daily programming tasks. You will also develop a solid foundation for reasoning about functional programs, by touching upon proofs of invariants and the tracing of execution symbolically. The course is hands on; most units introduce short programs that serve as illustrations of important concepts and invite you to play with them, modifying and improving them. The course is complemented by a series programming projects as homework assignments. Recommended background: You should have at least one year programming experience. Proficiency with Java or C# is ideal, but experience with other languages such as C/C++, Python, Javascript or Ruby is also sufficient. You should have some familiarity using the command line.
Le programme
- Week 1 - 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... - Week 2 - 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 struct... - Week 3 - 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 ... - Week 4 - 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. Fi... - Week 5 - Lists
This week we dive into Lists, the most commonly-used data structure in Scala. - Week 6 - Collections
After a deep-dive into Lists, this week we'll explore other data structures; vectors, maps, ranges, arrays, and more. We'll dive into Scala's powerful and flexible for-comprehensions for querying data.
Les intervenants
Martin Odersky
Professor
Computer Science
Le concepteur
L'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) est une université de recherche située à Lausanne, en Suisse, spécialisée dans les sciences physiques et l'ingénierie.
L'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne est l'une des deux écoles polytechniques fédérales suisses. Elle a été fondée par le gouvernement fédéral suisse avec la mission suivante :
former des ingénieurs et des scientifiques au plus haut niveau international
être un centre national d'excellence en science et en technologie
Fournir un centre d'interaction entre la communauté scientifique et l'industrie.
L'EPFL est considérée comme l'une des universités les plus prestigieuses au monde dans le domaine de l'ingénierie et des sciences. Elle est classée 17e au classement général et 10e dans le domaine de l'ingénierie dans le QS World University Rankings 2015 ; 34e au classement général et 12e dans le domaine de l'ingénierie dans le Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015.
La plateforme
Coursera est une entreprise numérique proposant des formations en ligne ouverte à tous fondée par les professeurs d'informatique Andrew Ng et Daphne Koller de l'université Stanford, située à Mountain View, Californie.
Ce qui la différencie le plus des autres plateformes MOOC, c'est qu'elle travaille qu'avec les meilleures universités et organisations mondiales et diffuse leurs contenus sur le web.
very good course by the creator of scala himself. The explanations are very clear and the exercises well chosen (not always easy)
very good course by the creator of scala himself. The explanations are very clear and the exercises well chosen (not always easy)
