Scala for the Rest of Us

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Argues that OO developers can adopt practical FP without diving into category theory, teaching a minimal checklist: immutability, case classes, pattern matching, Option/Either for absent values and errors, and for-comprehensions (monads) for short‑circuiting. Shows a working example, the Scala Pet Store, built with Play/Akka endpoints, hexagonal architecture and a SQL/Doobie repository, and reports it runs and teaches how wrapper types replace throws; notes teams are migrating toward Cats.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Scala
2. 1:46OO to functional mindset
3. 3:32Avoiding category theory trap
4. 5:16Learning functional basics
5. 6:20Prefer immutability in Scala
6. 7:23Pattern matching benefits
7. 8:26Handling nulls with Option
8. 9:09Replacing exceptions with Either
9. 10:53Monads and flatMap explained
10. 12:19Start coding in Scala
11. 13:23Building with type-level stack
12. 14:28Hexagonal architecture in Scala
13. 15:52Real-world monad examples
14. 16:33Summary and next steps

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