Rock the Code
Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala, Learning, Teaching and the Quest for the Perfect Language
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A long-form conversation with Martin Odersky about everything Scala: the evolution of the language, the future, learning, teaching, good library and code design, and more. --- 0:00 Intro 2:30 Teaching Scala to kids and beginners 6:55 Why recursion trips up new programmers 11:51 Scala as a first language: the evidence from Lund University 13:38 How Martin's students at EPFL learn debugging via…