Book description
Scala in Depth is a unique new book designed to help you integrate Scala effectively into your development process. By presenting the emerging best practices and designs from the Scala community, it guides you through dozens of powerful techniques example by example.
About the Technology
About the Book
Scala is a powerful JVM language that blends the functional and OO programming models. You'll have no trouble getting introductions to Scala in books or online, but it's hard to find great examples and insights from experienced practitioners. You'll find them in Scala in Depth. There's little heavy-handed theory here—just dozens of crisp, practical techniques for coding in Scala.
What's Inside
- Concise, expressive, and readable code style
- Integrate Scala into your existing Java projects
- Scala's 2.8.0 collections API
- How to use actors for concurrent programming
- Mastering the Scala type system
- Scala's OO features—type member inheritance, multiple inheritance, and composition
- Functional concepts and patterns—immutability, applicative functors, and monads
About the Reader
Written for readers who know Java, Scala, or another OO language.
About the Author
Josh Suereth is a software developer with Typesafe. He is a Scala committer and the maintainer of scala-tools.org.
Quotes
Authorative and understandable.
- Martin Odersky, Creator of Scala
Takes you deep into the inner workings of Scala.
- John C. Tyler, PROS Pricing
By far the best examples I've seen in any technical book.
- Eric Weinberg, Wagger Designs
An eye opener! Now I know why Scala does what it does.
- John Griffin, Coauthor of Hibernate Search in Action
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Cover Illustration
- Chapter 1. Scala—a blended language
- Chapter 2. The core rules
- Chapter 3. Modicum of style—coding conventions
- Chapter 4. Utilizing object orientation
- Chapter 5. Using implicits to write expressive code
- Chapter 6. The Type System
- Chapter 7. Using implicits and types together
- Chapter 8. Using the right collection
- Chapter 9. Actors
- Chapter 10. Integrating Scala with Java
- Chapter 11. Patterns in functional programming
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Scala in Depth
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2012
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781935182702
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