Cats Effect Tutorial

What

This is a self-guided tutorial to Cats Effect. It's a combination of text (which you're reading now) and code that you have to complete.

How

If you were to ask a Shakespearean character to describe this tutorial, they would probably say something poetic but pithy, like “Tis brief, my lord”. It is designed to be used in a group, and our goal is to provide only enough material to start exploration and discussion. We refer you to other resources for in-depth explanations:

• Essential Effects, the most comprehensive resource on everything Cats Effect;
• the Typelevel documentation, which is a bit patchy but nonetheless has some useful material; and
• Functional Programming Strategies, covers background concepts like monads and interpreters but doesn't directly address Cats Effect.

You should clone this repository to your computer. In code/src/main/scala/ there are various code challenges you will work with. The text will tell you when to tackle each challenge.