Functional and Concurrent Programming: Core Concepts and Features

Foreword by Cay Horstmann

In my book Scala for the Impatient, I provide a rapid-fire introduction into the many features of the Scala language and API. If you need to know how a particular feature works, you will find a concise explanation and a minimal code example (with real code, not fruits or animals). I assume that the reader is familiar with Java or a similar objectoriented programming language and organize the material to maximize the experience and intuition of such readers. In fact, I wrote the book because I was put off by the learning materials at the time, which were disdainful of object-oriented programming and biased toward functional programming as the superior paradigm.

That was more than a decade ago. Nowadays, functional techniques ...