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Scala Programming Projects

You're reading from   Scala Programming Projects Build real-world projects using popular Scala frameworks such as Play, Akka, and Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788397643
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Valot Mikael Valot
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Nicolas Jorand Nicolas Jorand
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Writing Your First Program FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing a Retirement Calculator 3. Handling Errors 4. Advanced Features 5. Type Classes 6. Online Shopping - Persistence 7. Online Shopping - REST API 8. Online Shopping - User Interface 9. Interactive Browser 10. Fetching and Persisting Bitcoin Market Data 11. Batch and Streaming Analytics 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

We have covered how to create a small project in Scala from scratch to packaging. We used TDD along the way so that it is guaranteed that our code was well-designed and robust. It gives us confidence when we refactor code: as long as all tests pass, we know that our code stills works. We modeled our domain with immutable data structures and processed them using pure functions that have no side effects.

We used some basic features of the language that are used in most projects, and you should now be familiar with enough building blocks to implement a wide variety of projects.

As a further exercise, you could enhance this calculator with one or many of these features:

  • Create an app for the function RetCalc.nbOfMonthsSaving, which calculates how long you need to save before you can retire.
  • Create a function called RetCalc.annualizedTotalReturn, which calculates...
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