The book is a concise guide to Scala programming, covering fundamental concepts like variables, control structures, and classes. It explores Scala features, including the REPL, auxiliary constructors, and default parameter values and delves into practical aspects such as strings and collections. Additionally, it introduces SBT and Scala Test for application development and testing. Emphasizing both object-oriented and functional programming, the book provides hands-on insights into anonymous functions, tuples, error handling, and concurrency using Scala Futures.
Author(s): Alvin Alexander
225Pages
The name Scala stands for "scalable language." The language is so named because it was designed to grow with the demands of its users. You can apply Scala to a wide range of programming tasks, from writing small scripts to building large systems. This page covers the following topics related to Scala : Introduction, A Scalable Language, First Steps in Scala, Next Steps in Scala, Classes and Objects, Basic Types and Operations, Functional Objects, Built-in Control Structures, Functions and Closures, Control Abstraction, Composition and Inheritance, Scala's Hierarchy, Traits, Packages and Imports, Assertions and Unit Testing, Case Classes and Pattern Matching, Working with Lists, Collections, Stateful Objects, Type Parameterization, Abstract Members, Implicit Conversions and Parameters, Implementing Lists, For Expressions Revisited, Extractors, Annotations, Working with XML, Modular Programming Using Objects, Object Equality, Combining Scala and Java, Actors and Concurrency, Combinator Parsing, GUI Programming, The SCells Spreadsheet.
Author(s): Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners
NAPages
Programming Scala introduces an exciting new language that offers all the benefits of a modern object model, functional programming, and an advanced type system. The chapters covered in the PDF are as follows : Zero to Sixty: Introducing Scala, Type Less, Rounding Out the Essentials, Traits, Basic Object-Oriented Programming in Scala, Advanced Object-Oriented Programming In Scala, The Scala Object System, Functional Programming in Scala, Robust, Scalable Concurrency with Actors, Herding XML in Scala, Domain-Specific Languages in Scala, The Scala Type System, Application Design, Scala Tools, Libraries and IDE Support.
Author(s): Dean Wampler, Alex Payne
448Pages
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