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Hello, Scala
In July, 2021, the price of the print book has been drastically reduced so the author gets only a few pennies per book, and you can learn Scala as inexpensively as physically possible.
In his latest book, Alvin Alexander, author of the Scala Cookbook and Functional Programming, Simplified , brings you a quick, simple introduction to the Scala programming language. In under 250 fast-paced pages, Mr. Alexander demonstrates that Scala is a beautiful, modern, expressive programming language. The book is broken down into 55 short lessons to help you learn one topic at a time, and also help you easily find what you need. Lessons - An introduction to Scala’s two types of variables, `val` and `var`
- Scala control structures, including powerful `for` expressions and `match` expressions
- An overview of Scala collections classes and methods
- Coverage of object-oriented programming (OOP), including features of Scala classes and methods
- An introduction to functional programming (FP), including pure functions, using functions as variables, case classes, match expressions, functional error handling, and more
- How to program in a modular style with traits
- How to build Scala projects with SBT
- How to write TDD and BDD unit tests with ScalaTest
- Programming concurrency with Akka actors and Scala futures To help get you started with Scala as fast as possible, the book shares many source code examples, including several open source Github projects that you can run immediately. All examples in the book have been written with the latest Scala release (version 2.12), and represent 2018’s “best practices” for Scala programming.
In his latest book, Alvin Alexander, author of the Scala Cookbook and Functional Programming, Simplified , brings you a quick, simple introduction to the Scala programming language. In under 250 fast-paced pages, Mr. Alexander demonstrates that Scala is a beautiful, modern, expressive programming language. The book is broken down into 55 short lessons to help you learn one topic at a time, and also help you easily find what you need. Lessons - An introduction to Scala’s two types of variables, `val` and `var`
- Scala control structures, including powerful `for` expressions and `match` expressions
- An overview of Scala collections classes and methods
- Coverage of object-oriented programming (OOP), including features of Scala classes and methods
- An introduction to functional programming (FP), including pure functions, using functions as variables, case classes, match expressions, functional error handling, and more
- How to program in a modular style with traits
- How to build Scala projects with SBT
- How to write TDD and BDD unit tests with ScalaTest
- Programming concurrency with Akka actors and Scala futures To help get you started with Scala as fast as possible, the book shares many source code examples, including several open source Github projects that you can run immediately. All examples in the book have been written with the latest Scala release (version 2.12), and represent 2018’s “best practices” for Scala programming.
258 pages, Paperback
Published September 8, 2018
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