Advanced Stairway to Scala by Bill Venners and Dick Wall - 11 - 13th Dec 2017

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Are you an experienced Scala developer or an API and Library programmer, wanting to up your Scala game? Want to learn the advanced aspects of the Scala language and core libraries?

Then come along to Advanced Stairway to Scala 2016 (https://skillsmatter.com/courses/516-stairway-to-scala-advanced-by-bill-venners-and-dick-wall?tc=533a21#overview), a special 3-day Tutorial by Dick Wall and Bill Venners to hone your skills!

Advanced Stairway to Scala is squarely aimed at Scala API and Library programmers, and developers wanting to up their Scala game.

Day 1 is the language in depth, including type variance, bounds, implicit conversions, classes and parameters, and custom extractors.

Days 2 and 3 move into best practices, patterns, idioms, XML and JSON serialization, Internal and external domain specific languages, functional concepts including functors, monads, and macros.

Learn how to: • Use the Scala language in depth, including type variance, bounds, implicit conversions, classes and parameters, and custom extractors.

• Apply best practices, patterns and idioms

• Understand XML and JSON serialization

• Use Internal and external domain specific languages

• Apply functional concepts including functors, monads, and macros

Check out the workshop here (https://skillsmatter.com/courses/516-stairway-to-scala-advanced-by-bill-venners-and-dick-wall?tc=533a21#overview)and the full program here (https://skillsmatter.com/courses/516-stairway-to-scala-advanced-by-bill-venners-and-dick-wall?tc=533a21#programme)

About Dick Wall and Bill Venners :

Dick Wall (https://skillsmatter.com/legacy_profile/dick-wall?tc=533a21) is a member of the JavaPosse and partner of Escalate Software. Dick was also the recipient of last year's Phil Bagwell Award for his dedication to the Scala community.

Bill Venners (https://skillsmatter.com/legacy_profile/bill-venners?tc=533a21)is president of Artima, Inc., provider of Scala books, developer tools, training, and consulting. He leads the open source projects for the ScalaTest testing library and the Scalactic library for functional, object-oriented programming. He is coauthor with Martin Odersky and Lex Spoon of the book, Programming in Scala.