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# [🐾 Understanding Cats: Concepts from the Rock the JVM Cats Course](https://awesomegsoc.hashnode.dev/understanding-cats-concepts-from-the-rock-the-jvm-cats-course?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

The Cats library in Scala provides a rich set of abstractions for functional programming. The Rock the JVM course on Cats is structured to introduce these abstractions progressively, showing both their theory and their practical applications. Below i...

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