Programming in Scala is the definitive book on Scala, the new language for the Java Platform that blends object-oriented and functional programming...
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Mar 25, 2009
John
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Woah. Amazing! This is a great book. Excellently written. Of course it couldn't be a great book if it weren't for the fact that Scala is a totally awesome language. When I was teaching myself Perl, I had to read the book (*the* Perl book, _Programming Perl_), two times in order to get it. It was just so different from any programming language I had previously known, that I just couldn't get it the first time. I knew pretty early on into the Scala book that I would have to read it twice, for the
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Nov 02, 2010
Daniel
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For those, who want to learn more about Scala, I'd like to recommend very good book, actually one of the best books I read this year. Despite the fact it's a technical book I would compare it to reading Harry Potter. Simple language, easy to understand, short chapters and can't stop reading it. Here is the link: Programming in Scala by Martin Odersky
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For those, who want to learn more about Scala, I'd like to recommend very good book, actually one of the best books I read this year. Despite the fact it's a technical book I would compare it to reading Harry Potter. Simple language, easy to understand, short chapters and can't stop reading it. Here is the link: Programming in Scala by Martin Odersky
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Jan 01, 2012
Ondřej
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A very nice book and probably the best source of information about the Scala language. It is very well written with a clean explanation of the important concepts and features of the language.
However, sometimes the authors get carried away and get into explaining basics of functional programming. This might be useful for folks that only used Java before, but it gets boring soon if you already know it. Moreover, while most of the examples are great, some of them look artificial and solve More...
However, sometimes the authors get carried away and get into explaining basics of functional programming. This might be useful for folks that only used Java before, but it gets boring soon if you already know it. Moreover, while most of the examples are great, some of them look artificial and solve More...
Jun 13, 2011
Great book. Peppered of dry jokes. Like "now you are *literally a Scala expert. Footnote: *figuratively speaking".
Apr 19, 2009
Piggybox
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This book is kinda boring. It feels like a feature list actually, partly due to the complexity of scala.
Feb 08, 2011
Situagent
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A superbly written book about an elegant and powerful programming language.
Nov 11, 2011
Andy
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This is how a book about a programming language should be written. It gives you the basics, but also provides details that you should know to be effective and efficient using Scala. What makes the book really great is that it is useful even if you aren't planning on writing a line of Scala. There are a lot of good programming practices and patterns that are given in the book (both explicitly and implicitly).
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Mar 31, 2011
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Nov 13, 2011
Steve
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This is a wonderful book. Very clearly explained, excellent examples. Scala has replaced Java as my new favorite programming language.
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