Scala Programming Language and Suitability of its Inclusion in Education

This thesis deals with the Scala programming language and suitability of its inclusion in education. It is divided into four sections. The first one describes the history of the language and its classification in the context of other programming languages. The second section focuses on the Scala language itself. In this section, the emphasis is on presenting the concepts of functional programming such as immutable collections, the absence of side effects or first class function. The third section contains a summary of main elements of functional paradigm and their support in the Scala language. The last section deals with potential benefits and problems associated with the inclusion of the language into the teaching at the University of Economics, Prague