Opinions

It's a great book -- David Pollak, creator of Lift

The book

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.

The authors

Christos KK Loverdos is a research inclined computer software professional. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Computer Science. He has been working in the software industry for more than ten years, designing and implementing flexible, enterprise-level systems and making strategic technical decisions. He has also published research papers on topics including digital typography, service-oriented architectures, and highly available distributed systems. Last but not least, he is an advocate of open source software.

Apostolos Syropoulos is a computer scientist. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics, an M.Sc. in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science. His research interests focus on computability theory, category theory, fuzzy set theory, and digital typography, He has authored or co-authored six books, was co-editor of a multi-author volume, and has published more than 50 papers and articles.

Source code

Get source code from the book. Inside the provided file you will also find a note that will help transitioning from 2.7 to 2.8.