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Scala for the Impatient, 3rd Edition
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Scala for the Impatient, 3rd Edition

by Cay S. Horstmann
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
10h 2m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 1. The Basics

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In this chapter, you will learn how to use Scala as an industrial-strength pocket calculator, working interactively with numbers and arithmetic operations. We introduce a number of important Scala concepts and idioms along the way. You will also learn how to browse the Scaladoc documentation at a beginner’s level.

Highlights of this introduction are:

  • Using the Scala interpreter

  • Defining variables with var and val

  • Numeric types

  • Using operators and functions

  • Navigating Scaladoc

1.1 The Scala Interpreter ...

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