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GUIDE | The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala (Daniel Westheide)
Daniel Westheide created and published a blog series called The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala, targeted at aspiring Scala enthusiasts who have already made their first steps with the language and are looking for more detailed explanations. This page serves as a hub for everything related to this series. Read More
Edu-Video| Intro to Functional Programming in Scala
The objective of this introduction (video) was to educate our division on the strong trend towards functional programming that has occurred over the past few years.
Joe Barnes of Mentor Graphics gave the presentation in the context of Scala, now used by over 40 large companies including LinkedIn, AOL, Bank of America, Huffington Post and many more. Watch Video
New Coursera Courses: “Principles of Functional Programming” in Scala and “Reactive Programming”
Martin Odersky writes, “Time wise, the two courses follow each other. Principles of Functional Programming starts September 16 and goes for 7 weeks, then Principles of Reactive Programming starts November 4 and also goes for 7 weeks. (MR5RZMKG9XBF)
So if you want learn about reactive programming but feel your Scala skills could use some improvement, there’s still time to enroll for the functional programming course.” Read More…
Video: Functional Programming From First Principles – By Erik Meijer (65,000 Views)
When to use functional programming languages and techniques By Claudio Caballero in Software Engineer, May 21, 2013, 11:00 AM // Claudiotrope If a project requires lots of concurrency/parallelism, its own language, or lots of math, you should think functional programming. As IT professionals, we have to balance proficiently executing on current projects with proven technologies and learning to implement new ways […]