Towards an Educational Fragment of Scala

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Proposal for an educational Scala fragment that restricts syntax and semantics to make beginner errors actionable and outputs easier to explain, inspired by teaching languages like DrRacket. Design choices include restricted syntax (immutable vars, required else branches), actionable error messages that suggest == when = is used, and fully applied constructors plus higher‑order functions that take explicit lists. The talk sketches prototypes and open implementation questions rather than a finished tool.

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1. 0:00Educational Scala intro
2. 4:45Design principles
3. 5:29Core constructs
4. 6:35Error messages comparison
5. 8:39Open questions
6. 10:05Q&A
7. 10:25Actionable error messages
8. 13:33Psychological foundations
9. 14:40Student perspective
10. 17:13Alternative approaches
11. 19:01Documentation improvements
12. 20:28Call to action

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