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I've put together a list of blog, guides, articles, videos and courses I found useful by actually reading them, trying them, watching them, completing them. I've gone over a lot of stuff on the internet and these few items deserve a mention and are well worth your time. |
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I've put together a list of blog, guides, articles, videos and courses I found useful by actually reading them, trying them, watching them, completing them. I've gone over a lot of stuff on the internet and these few items deserve a mention and are well worth your time.
- Pragmatic Scala book
- The Neophyte's Guide to Scala
- Martin Odersky's course on Coursera
- Scala with Cats e-book by Underscore
- Cats
- Cats exercises
- Michael Pilquist's series of tutorials on YouTube
- Scala Tagged Types
- The Aux Pattern
- Of Variance and Functors
- Monad Transformers
- Railway oriented programming
- Railway oriented programming: Error handling in functional languages by Scott Wlaschin
The Learn you a Haskell for Great Good! book is a great way to learn functional programming concepts. It explains things like currying, type constructors, kinds, monoids, functors, applicative functors, monads in a very clear, easy-to-follow style. Yes, I know, it's not Scala. It's Haskell. And yes, you should learn you a Haskell. For great good it will do you.