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Topical matters

• Course pages published at 17.4.2008
• Contents and scope of the course adjusted due to original lecturer's sick leave, 13.8.2008
• Thursday's first lesson has been placed to B123!
• Please answer to the course questionnaire at (https://ilmo.cs.helsinki.fi/kurssit/servlet/Valinta)
• Results of the course (4.11.2008)

About the course

Deparment of Computer Science at University of Helsinki and HeCSE are arranging a special advanced level short course (4 cu 2 cu) on the programming language Scala. The course is held in the last week of August 2008.

Course arrangements: Pietu Pohjalainen

Contents of the course and course material

The course should provide students with tools for using Scala in their everyday programming problems. The course divides to two parts as follows.

Part 1: Introduction to Scala
- Writing Java in Scala's syntax (an introduction to Scala)
- Functional programming: constructs, types and mindsets

Part 2. Scala for fun
- Fun with Erlang
- Scala in the industry
- Type-safe reflection.

Pre-requisites

The intended audience includes graduate students of University of Helsinki and HeCSE graduate school. Basic degree students at advanced levels can also attend.

Registration to the course is done through the department's Ilmo-system.

Course schedule

The lectures are held between 25.8. and 29.8. at 12-16 in classroom CK112, except for Thursday 12-14, which is held in B123! The schedule is as follows.

Date	Time	Lecturer	Association	Topic
Mon 25.8.	12-14	Arto Wikla	Univ. of Helsinki	Introduction to Scala
	14-16	Pietu Pohjalainen	Univ. of Helsinki	Mix-in inheritance for improving modularization in JSF environment
Tue 26.8.	14-16	Pietu Pohjalainen	Univ. of Helsinki	Functional programming in Scala
Wed 25.8.	No lectures
Thu 28.8.	12-14	Nils Müllner	Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg	Derivation of Fault Tolerance Measures using Erlang for Simulation
	14-16	Sebastian Nykopp	Reaktor Innovations	Scala implicits and ScalaCheck
Fri 29.8.	12-14	Lauri Alanko	Univ. of Helsinki	Type-safe structural reflection
	14-16	Pietu Pohjalainen	Univ. of Helsinki	Introduction to the course exercise

Exercises

The course contains practical exercises during the lectures. After the lectures, the students are required to complete a project work in Scala. The deadline for the project work is Sunday 28th of September 2008.

Completing the course

There is no exam in the course. The grading is based on the quality of the project work.