Programming in Scala, 3rd Edition - Softcover

Odersky, Martin; Spoon, Lex; Venners, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981531687 ISBN 13: 9780981531687

Publisher: Artima Inc, 2016

Synopsis

The much anticipated third edition of Programming in Scala is now available! This book is the authoritative tutorial on the Scala programming language, co-written by the language’s designer Martin Odersky. The Scala language, which blends object-oriented and functional programming concepts, has been exploding in popularity in recent years. This book is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to learning Scala. If you’re a programmer wanting to do your next software project in Scala, looking to expand your horizons by learning new concepts, or currently using Java and want to expand your knowledge of functional programming—or all of the above—then this book is for you.The third edition has been updated to cover new features up to and including Scala version 2.12, such as String interpolation; Futures and concurrency, including new methods added in 2.12 and asynchronous testing with Futures in ScalaTest 3.0; wildcard types; new recommendations for writing hashCode; the close integration of Scala 2.12 and Java 8, most significantly the new ability to use function literals to express instances of SAM types; the latest recommendations for Scala coding style; implicit classes;creating your own AnyVals; the context bounds syntax for type classes; and more.

About this title

About the Author

Martin Odersky is the creator of the Scala language. He is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where since 2001 he has led the team that developed the Scala language, libraries, and compiler. He is a founder of Typesafe, Inc., and was a co-designer of Java generics and the original author of the current javac reference compiler. Lex Spoon worked on Scala for two years at EPFL and is now a software engineer at Semmle, Inc. Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., and cofounder of Escalate Software, LLC. He is the designer of the ScalaTest testing framework and the Scalactic library for functional, object-oriented programming.

From the Inside Flap

Programming in Scala, Third Edition, is the definitive book on Scala, the new language for the Java Platform that blends object-oriented and functional programming concepts into a unique and powerful tool for developers.Coauthored by the designer of the Scala language, this authoritative book will teach you, one step at a time, the Scala language and the ideas behind it.The book is carefully crafted to help you learn. The first few chapters will give you enough of the basics that you can already start using Scala for simple tasks. The entire book is organized so that each new concept builds on concepts that came before—a series of steps that promises to help you master the Scala language and the important ideas about programming that Scala embodies. A comprehensive tutorial and reference for Scala, this book covers the entire language and important libraries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artima Inc
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0981531687
• ISBN 13: 9780981531687
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 888