Scala Programming for Big Data Analytics : Get Started With Big Data Analytics Using Apache Spark

© Irfan Elahi 2019

I. ElahiScala Programming for Big Data Analyticshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4810-2_2

2. Installing Scala

Irfan Elahi¹  

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Notting Hill, VIC, Australia

 

Before you can use Scala to write exciting programs and make your way to excellence in Apache Spark, you need to install Scala in your system. Even if Scala isn’t installed on your system, you can open Notepad or any text editor of your choice and write Scala code/expressions and then save the contents of that file with a.scala extension. However, that won’t help you in achieving your desired goal, which is to compile the program that you wrote, run your Scala program, or package it (mostly in the form of JAR files). Not to mention that you won’t be using the facilities that ...