Day 8

Sprint

I have decided start implementing agile working practices and organsise my learning into Sprints which start and finish on the Monday of each week.

My sprint for this week is to learn the basic functionalities of Scala in order to be able to commence a small Scala project next Monday. I shall also try to incorporate testing and tooling techniques into this Sprint by downloading and incorporating unit testing frameworks and host my Scala practise on the HolidayCheck Github.

Scala Practice

So far, not so bad. I’ve completed the first chapter of:

Scala for the impatient - by Cay S. Horstmann

Basically, getting use to importing libraries, using basic operators and familiarising myself with the syntax. It would seem that Scala has lots of specific types and methods Standard library, but I’m just learning the basics for now and not worrying too much what each type means.

A lot of terminology though. To overcome this I have made a “Scala Arbeitsbuch” to write down terminology that I’ve read-up about and re-write the definitions in my own words. Such as; Static typing, lazy initialisation and REPL.

On to Conditionals…