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In this talk, I will cover three key concepts that emerged from reflecting on this past year of learning: making mistakes, helping others to help you and finding community.
Navigating the world of Scala and functional programming as a beginner can feel daunting and intimidating. Over a year ago, I was thrown into learning Scala headfirst.
Now, having come out on the other side, I want to share the lessons I learned with other beginners, as well as what I wish the senior developers I worked with knew.
I started my Scala journey at a corporate bank after graduating with a degree in Physics. So, not only did I have to learn Scala from scratch, but I also had to apply these concepts to a domain I had no prior knowledge of. Initially, I experienced a lot of confusion and frustration, trying to navigate a new language, along with a new job and learn to work in a large team. Thankfully, my experienced Scala colleagues were always there to help me and answer the many, many questions I had.
In this talk, I will cover three key concepts that emerged from reflecting on this past year of learning:
1. Making Mistakes
2. Helping Others to Help You
3. Finding Community
By the end of this talk, I hope that newcomers will feel less alone and more optimistic about diving into the exciting world of Scala, and that experienced developers will gain a better understanding of how to best support their juniors in their learning journey.
Drawing on 25 years of experience as a professional musician and record producer, this will be a beginner focused talk introducing the use of Scala.js and the web audio api for building Scala powered Web Audio Applications.
In this talk, we’ll show first the different techniques we can use to apply constraints is our domains. Then, we’ll present Iron, its features, extensions, and integrations. We’ll finish by showcasing a fully integrated constraint-enforcing app.
In this talk, we will demonstrate some elegant applications of functional programming in Scala, with even more elegant visual results - all with live code and real-time output.
