welcome to objects after completing this lesson you should be able to create

singleton objects in Scala describe the difference between a class and an object
in Scala outline usages for objects in school applications and be able to start
a scholar application so what is an object in the nineteen nineties a very
famous book came out called design patterns and included a pattern called
the singleton pattern this defines a single instance of a class that cannot
be recreated with them a single run time such as a JDM instance they can be
directly accessed by in their name so here's an example of a very simple Scala
object instead of using the class keyword we use the object keyword and
call the object hello inside of this object is a method called message which
returns a string hello you'll notice that we are able to use the message
method inside of the Hello object without instantiate during an instance
of hello there is no keywords such as new and use we use it directly this is
because this object is a singleton instance and is already instantiated for
us when we tried to call the message method objects are Linsley instantiated
so that they are instantiated the first time you tried to use them why is this
useful many languages permit the definition of static fields and methods
which are not tied to a particular instance of a class there globally
available within the runtime such as the JVM so when are scholar objects used a
very frequent use cases to create factories for instances of classes so
this is an abstraction or usage is not tied directly to an instance of a class
but instead results in the creation of instances of classes they're also good
for utility method
which do not leverage any state from outside of themselves
anything they use is what is passed as a parameter and then they returned some
value based on a calculation or transformation objects are also used to
house constant definitions and have a look at some examples here is our object
hello again and inside we have a constant defined as an immutable value
called one hour in minutes
it is a type int and is sixty as a value we also have a method called create time
from minutes which takes a minute's value of type int and it damn instead
she ate a new time instants for us using the minutes passed in divided by the
constant we already defined and then the minutes modded by the same value this is
a factory method for time instances to start a scholar application we put a
main method inside of an object the object can be called anything you want
the Deaf main has to follow a specific convention where it has some arguments
of a type array of string and returns a type of unit which is a rough equivalent
value to avoid in the JVM it then can do whatever you want inside of the
bootstrapping mean methods such as create other classes and services to
start the skull application from outside of itself we say the Scala keyword to
start the JVM process and to the classpath we add whatever classes we
want to use such as the Hello class we just to find that hello object and then
if we wanted to run inside an SBT or activator context we use the run command
either one of these would work
having completed this lesson you should be able to create singleton objects in
Scala describe the difference between a class and an object in Scala outline
usages for objects in school applications and start a scholar
application