Adopting Scala: The Next Steps

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Six months of learning Scala gets to production competence, then a year of deliberate study narrows focus to immutability, no exceptions — return validated error lists instead, and explicit functional signatures; those three get applied to a real validation problem that used cats and incremental rewrites until it compiled a list of messages instead of throwing. Learning methods are concrete: heavy pair programming, repeatable katas (Carter's), Coursera exercises, the Red Book / Functional Programming in Scala, and community mentoring like ScalaBridge and Codebar.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:15WHAT NEXT?
3. 1:52THROWING EXCEPTIONS
4. 2:55VALIDATION
5. 3:17HOW AM I LEARNING?
6. 4:18PRACTICE
7. 5:25THROW YOURSELF IN
8. 6:09WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES?
9. 7:24HELPFUL FEEDBACK
10. 8:59ONE STEP AT A TIME
11. 10:00EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT

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