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I am the founder of Rock the JVM, a learning platform for the Scala ecosystem, which now contains more than 20 course and 300+ hours of video material on Scala, Kotlin, functional programming, a variety of libraries and tools, as well as comprehensive courses on Apache Spark and Apache Flink.
I’ve taught more than 100000 developers so far, and trained high-performing teams at some of the most renowned companies in the world (e.g. Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Google, ING and others).I’ve also taught more than 30000 kids to code (not Scala… yet).
I have a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and I wrote my Bachelor and Master theses on Quantum Computation. Before starting to learn programming, I won medals at international Physics competitions.
In this talk, we'll cover the essentials of macros, why they are useful, why you should care about them, and how to become as good as you need with them for practical purposes.
