Day 5

Scala - Sink or Swim

I’ve decided to choose Scala for the following reasons:

• Used in Microservices and the Data Team at HolidayCheck
• Data Science/Engineering interests me; we live in a world constantly churning data. Everything we do, the data is stored somewhere and having done lots of Statistics at university, the application of data interests me.
• It’s completely different to what I’ve done before; not similar to Python.
• It’s capable of both Functional Programming and Object Orientated Programming; both paradigms which I wish to gain competency in.

Although I don’t know Java or have a clue about Java syntax or its vices and virtues. This is a problem because Scala is perceived as the saving grace to Java and in:

“SCALA for the impatient” – Cay S. Horstmann

All quirks of Scala are discussed as comparisons to Java. But hopefully this could be a good thing, I will not carry on any habits from Java and start a fresh and learn from the basics.

But oh well, I welcome the challenge!

Getting organised

Today I also organised myself by creating an online organisation tool called Trello. The intention of this tool is to focus my learning on specific tasks and keep track of long and short term goals. In this tool I shall organise my Sprints which is an Agile tool of short-term goal management and reflection. For now, I have decided to make my sprints every week but may change this if tasks seem more apt for a bi-weekly Sprint.