” I started learning Scala in late 2012 when I started looking for a ‘better Java”. At first, the learning curve for Scala seemed really, really steep, but then I did the Coursera introductory courses to “Functional Programming in Scala” by Martin Odersky and fell in love with the language and the functional programming approach.

I really like the compile time type-checking features that well-written Scala code has. The compiler helps you do various refactoring very efficiently, guiding the developer from working code to working code, without breaking anything. The probability that ‘if your code compiles, it works” is really high in Scala. By now, we have run 5 successful Scala bootcamps, and hired many of the graduates who have joined our teams!

“ I started to learn scala together with haskell more than 10 years ago. At first, I didn’t really like haskell – it had very unusual and strange syntax. But the more I learned it more I enjoyed it and understood that most of haskell concepts could be used in scala. Since then, I have used Scala in my daily job. I have been using scala at my daily job ever since. In my lectures, we will see how we can build HTTP services in a functional way.”

“I started my programming career as a Scala engineer back in 2016. At the time, we were using it just as a better version of Java, mostly relying on Java frameworks to build our projects. The benefits that Scala brought to the table were obvious: you’ve had a proper type system, less boilerplate, higher-order functions, pattern matching, etc. I then went to work with Apache Spark on data processing – and Scala was also a key technology there. But I knew there was something else – functional programming with Scala. At the time I joined Evolution, it was in full bloom: multiple approaches, several key libraries surrounding it, and multiple books explaining it. And I think that’s what Scala was really meant to be: a powerful, flexible, functional programming-oriented language. Not just some better version of Java, as many people think.

So now I would like to share the experience I’ve had with others, showing that Scala has grown a lot and offers a wide variety of possibilities for developers.”

“I moved from Clojure to Scala in 2014 and was impressed by the Scala type system. My areas of interest are functional programming, type systems and DSLs. I will be talking about functions – the main concept of functional programming. And type classes – one of the ways how we can achieve polymorphism in Scala.”

I was mostly working as a Java developer when I first faced Scala, and it pleasantly surprised me with a lot of new concepts that forced me to reconsider my previous experience.

As soon as I knew about Scala Bootcamp – I enrolled.  By learning here, I got to know the best practices for Scala development. I saw that Evolution gives to developers a lot of freedom and the ability to learn and use modern approaches for building software. That’s why I decided to join the company after the Bootcamp.

In my opinion, Scala is a language that grows with you. In the sense that when you are becoming a better developer, you are opening new ways to use it and understanding how deep it really is.

For me, this Bootcamp became a chance to dive into this world and learn a lot of new and interesting things, so I’m suggesting the same for you.