Using Traits, Mixins and Monads in JVM Languages

Java eliminated quite a bit of complexity by eliminating multiple inheritance (MI). But that also meant we lost some design capabilities. The primary problem with MI was method collisions. What if methods can collaborate rather than collide. Traits and mixins, in languages like Scala and Groovy, offer us some real nice design choices. These can be used to implement more elegantly some common design patterns. In this presentation, you'll learn about traits and mixins and how you can benefit from them. Monads are quite unheard of in imperative style of programming. Monads, however, play an interesting roll in a purely functional programming language. Come to this session if you are heard of monads and wondered what in the world they were. What are monads? Why care about them? Where you have used them before. Types of monads. Building your own monads.
Author:
Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions.

[@ryengi2]

Part 2 (Monads) starts at 1:45:35

[@ThakurArjun247]

The best explanation of Monads.

[@arpangrwl]

Amazing talk .. Do we have any blog, ppt or any written documentation of this session as well

[@ThakurArjun247]

Take a look at his official website agiledeveloper.com/talks.html

[@saidsenhadji]

awesome talk

[@nO_d3N1AL]

Interfaces can have implementations (in Java 8). I'm surprised he didn't say that at 6:15

[@DurgaswaroopPerla]

He did.About a minute later.

[@ImaginaryNumb3r]

So, he just ignored mentioning default method in Java for what reason?

[@natepepin09]

It is a 3 hour talk.

[@neuemage]

"how wever" xD