Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics

Summary

Throughout this chapter, you have learned the basics of the Scala programming language, its features, and available editor. We have also briefly discussed Scala and its syntax. We demonstrated the installation and setting up guidelines for beginners who are new to Scala programming. Later in the chapter, you learned how to write, compile, and execute a sample Scala code. Moreover, a comparative discussion about Scala and Java provided for those who are from a Java background. Here's a short comparison between Scala and Python:

Scala is statically typed, but Python is dynamically typed. Scala (mostly) embraces the functional programming paradigm, while Python doesn't. Python has a unique syntax that lacks most of the parentheses, while ...