The Neophyte's Guide to Scala

by Daniel Westheide

The Neophyte's Guide to Scala is a book for intermediate Scala developers. If you have made your first steps with Scala and functional programming, for example by participating in Martin Odersky's Coursera course Functional Programming Principles in Scala, and you don't know how to continue, this book is for you.

Originally published as a blog series from November 2012 to April 2013, the Neophyte's Guide to Scala is now available as an ebook, a compilation of all 16 articles.

In this book, you will learn the details of how to employ pattern matching and extractors, working with the omnipresent Option and similar types in an idiomatic way, and leveraging higher-order functions and currying to keep your code DRY. Furthermore, you will gain insight into advanced Scala features like type classes and path-dependent types and about Scala's approach at concurrent programming: Learn about the power of Scala's futures and the actor model, as implemented in the popular Akka toolkit.

Genres: Programming, Software

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First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Ben Ng · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, but effective.

[f1yegor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice book to read after introduction material or fresh up your knowledge of Scala

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a really well done second book on Scala.