Steps in Scala: An Introduction to Object-Functional Programming

by Christos K. K. Loverdos , Apostolos Syropoulos

• ISBN13: 9780521747585
• ISBN10: 0521747589
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Scala is a highly expressive, concise and scalable language. It is also the most prominent method of the new and exciting methodology known as object-functional programming. In this book, the authors show how Scala grows to the needs of the programmer, whether professional or hobbyist. They teach Scala with a step-by-step approach and explain how to exploit the full power of the industry-proven JVM technology. Readers can then dive into specially chosen design challenges and implementation problems, inspired by the trials of real-world software engineering. It also helps readers to embrace the power of static typing and automatic type inference. In addition, the book shows how to use the dual-object and functional-oriented natures combined at Scala's core, and so write code that is less 'boilerplate', giving a genuine increase in productivity.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Core features

Advanced features

Parser builders

XML processing

GUI programming

Concurrent programming

On paths and a bit of algebraic abstractions

Virtual files coming into existence

Compositional file matching

Searching, iterating, traversing

The expression problem

A computer algebra system

Multimedia processing

Distributing a Scala application along with Scala itself

Working with the compiler and the interpreter

Scala's grammar

References

Author index

Subject index

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