Josh
(Josh)
October 25, 2019, 10:47pm
1
I saw a copy of Functional Programming in Scala by Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason at Half Price Books and couldn’t resist buying it after skimming through a bit. I’ll add it to the lending library .
Functional Programming in Scala is a serious tutorial for programmers looking to learn FP and apply it to the everyday business of coding. The book guides readers from basic techniques to advanced topics in a logical, concise, and clear progression....
One review said that it has a lot of detail but not much practical application, and it recommended this other book for practical examples:
In the second edition of this practical book, four Cloudera data scientists present a set of self-contained patterns for performing large-scale data analysis with Spark. The authors bring Spark, statistical … - Selection from Advanced Analytics with...
Josh
(Josh)
October 30, 2019, 6:55pm
2
I was reading the FP in Scala book last night and it’s pretty good so far.
A few things that aren’t mentioned:
To run code in the browser, try Scastie .
To run code locally, you can use sbt
.
Create a new project use this command and type in the project name when prompted:
$ sbt new scala/hello-world.g8
Then you can start a REPL with sbt
. Type console
after it’s compiled, and you’ll see the scala>
prompt.
There is a quick overview of the language here:
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/scala/
I haven’t watched them, but there are some short video tutorials here: