Day 1 / Mar 1 (Tue)¶

Operating System¶

The workshop is on Windows 11 with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) / Ubuntu.

Development Tools¶

Installing the development tools:

1. OpenJDK 11 (WSL/Ubuntu and Windows)
2. IntelliJ IDEA (Windows) + the Scala plugin
3. sbt

Topics¶

1. Created a Scala project to display "hello world" in IntelliJ IDEA (a Scala/sbt project)
   • object
   • extends App
   • println
2. Using sbt
   • compile
   • run
   • ~ + ~run
   • console
   • build.properties
3. Scala REPL using sbt console
   • build.sbt to set the Scala version
   • REPL = read-eval-print loop
   • Scala types (String, Integer, Long, Char, Boolean)
   • res values
   • val keyword
   • TAB completion
4. Scala for the Impatient book
   • Parts of Chapter 1 "The Basics"
   • Up to and including the Exercises on page 11
   • Optional parentheses for methods with no parameters
   • Optional semicolon

Working Hours¶

Day: Mar 1

10:30am - 4pm in the office