Introduction to High-level Programming with Scala

From Workingmouse Wiki

• Presenter: Tony Morris (Workingmouse)
• Date: 28 July 2008
• Venue: Queensland Java Users Group, Toowong Library, Brisbane.
• Duration: 106 minutes

Contents 1 Overview 2 Slides 3 Video 4 Additional Links

Overview

In this presentation, Tony introduces some of the essential tenets of functional programming and why they are important. He draws on the existing Java knowledge of the audience to relate foreign concepts. Tony then goes on to introduce the Scala programming language to the audience.

Slides

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Video

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Additional Links

• Why Functional Programming Matters, John Hughes 1984
• Scala website
• Workingmouse training and workshops
• Idempotence versus Referential Transparency, Tony Morris
• A Scala Tutorial for Java programmers, Michel Schinz, Philipp Haller (15 pages PDF)
• Scala By Example, Martin Odersky (145 pages PDF)
• An Overview of the Scala Programming Language Second Edition, Martin Odersky et. al. (20 pages PDF)
• Scala API Specification
• Scala Exercises for Beginners (Revision 2)
• Functional Java
• Reductio: Automated Specification-based Testing for Java