Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide, 2nd Edition

Odersky, Martin; Spoon, Lex; Venners, Bill

ISBN 10: 0981531644 / ISBN 13: 9780981531649

Editore: Artima Inc, 2011

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Titolo: Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive ...

Casa editrice: Artima Inc

Data di pubblicazione: 2011

Legatura: paperback

Condizione: New

Edizione: seconda edizione

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Programming in Scala, Second 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. This second edition provides more than 100 pages of new material that covers new features in Scala 2.8.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.This second edition covers many features introduced or enhanced in the 2.8 release, including: - The design of the new collections library - Structural subtyping - The new rules for implicits - Package objects - Chained package clauses - Named and default parameters - The copy method on case classes

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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 Scala Solutions, 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 LogicBlox, Inc. Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., and cofounder of Escalate Software. He is the author of many articles on Java as well as the book Inside the Java Virtual Machine, and the designer of the ScalaTest testing framework.