Course: Purely functional Scala

Last June I attended the amazing Habla Computing's Purely functional Scala course in Madrid.

It's a challenging course in which we learned about type classes, functors, monadic APIs and composition of effects. It's tough but very interesting, and I discovered a very flexible and robust way of designing software which goes beyond what you can achieve using ports and adapters in OO.

Habla Computing's team explains these concepts in a very creative and accessible way that gently takes you from what you already know from OO (separations of concerns, ports and adapters,...), into the monadic APIs, so that you can see the need for the new patterns and how they come to be, without losing yourself in too much mathematical jargon.

I wanted to do this course since I met Juan Manuel Serrano in the first Lambda World in Cádiz two years ago, and when I finally had the chance to attend it, I loved it. Juan Manuel is the CTO of Habla Computing and he is doing a great work in making functional programming more accessible (I've posted several of his talks in this blog). I really recommend Habla Computing's course to anyone that would like to enter the world of functional programming.

Thanks a lot to Habla Computing's team for this great course!