Our industry is moving toward functional programming, but your
object-oriented experience is still valuable. Scala combines the power
of OO and functional programming, and Pragmatic Scala shows you how to
work effectively with both. Updated to Scala 2.11, with in-depth
coverage of new features such as Akka actors, parallel collections, and
tail call optimization, this book will show you how to create stellar
applications.
The first edition of this book was released as Programming Scala.
Our industry is moving toward functional programming, but your
object-oriented experience is still valuable. Scala combines the power
of OO and functional programming, and Pragmatic Scala shows you how to
work effectively with both. Updated to Scala 2.11, with in-depth
coverage of new features such as Akka actors, parallel collections, and
tail call optimization, this book will show you how to create stellar
applications.
This thorough introduction to Scala will get you coding in this powerful
language right away. You'll start from the familiar ground of Java and,
with easy-to-follow examples, you'll learn how to create highly concise
and expressive applications with Scala. You'll find out when and how to
mix both imperative and functional style, and how to use parallel
collections and Akka actors to create high-performance concurrent
applications that effectively use multicore processors.
Scala has evolved since the first edition of this book, and Pragmatic
Scala is a significant update. We've revised each chapter, and added
three new chapters and six new sections to explore the new features in
Scala. You'll learn how to:
- Safely manage concurrency with parallel collections and Akka actors
- Create expressive readable code with value classes and improved
implicit conversions
- Create strings from data with no sweat using string interpolation
- Create domain-specific languages
- Optimize your recursions with tail call optimization
Whether you're interested in creating concise, robust single-threaded
applications or highly expressive, thread-safe concurrent programs, this
book has you covered.
What You Need:
The Scala compiler (2.x) and the JDK are required to make use of the
concepts and the examples in this book.
