A few days back I was reading an article on Coding Standards. There are a few articles and even books available on this topic. Following coding standards consistently, I believe is very important for a software development team. Coding standards are not written in stone. They are guidelines for making software code more readable. Like most guidelines they can be, and usually are customized for individual teams. Most teams have well defined ways in which they structure their code and name variables, methods, classes, etc. The specific standard a team adopts is not as important as the practice of ensuring that the entire team adheres to the same standard.
Sometime back I registered for the Functional Programming Principles in Scala , on Coursera. I have been meaning to learn Scala from a while, but have been putting it on the back burner because of other commitments. But when I saw this course being offered by Martin Odersky, on Coursera , I just had to enroll in it. This course is a 7 week course. I will blog my learning experience and notes here for the next seven weeks (well actually six, since the course started on Sept 18th). The first step was to install the required tools: JDK - Since this is my work machine, I already have a couple of JDK's installed SBT - SBT is the Scala Build Tool. Even though I have not looked into it in detail, it seems like a replacement for Maven. I am sure we will use it for several things, however upto now I only know about two uses for it - to submit assignments (which must be a feature added by the course team), and to start the Scala console. Installed sbt from here , and added the path
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