ScalaQuest: the Scala adventure

ScalaQuest is a fun, enticing game that will take you from Zero to Hero in your path to learning Scala. Battle Goblins, help Wizards and face all kinds of challenges to prove your worth. Start on the safe haven of plain harmless Classes and make your way to the treacherous Implicit Forests.

Our goal is to create one of the least painful ways to learn Scala.

In this talk, we will showcase our progress with ScalaQuest, with a focus on some of the challenges we’ve faced, such as compiling user-submitted code with Amazon Lambdas, keeping a snappy UI and crafting effective learning material.

Session length

40 minutes

Language of the presentation

English

Target audience

Beginner: No need to have prior knowledge

Who is your session intended to

People interested in growing their Scala teams, people interested in expanding the Scala developer community.

Speaker

Alejandro Lujan (Senior Data Engineer at Shopify)