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Programming Scala Beta Release

Posted by: Venkat Subramaniam on 04/04/2009
I'm delighted to announce the Beta Release of the Programming Scala book.
The topics covered in the book are:
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • Getting up to speed in Scala excerpt
  • Classes in Scala
  • Sensible Typing excerpt
  • Function Values and Closures
  • Traits and Type Conversions excerpt
  • Using Collections
  • Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions
  • Concurrent Programming
  • Intermixing with Java
  • Unit Testing With Scala
  • Exception Handling
  • Using Scala
  • Web Resources
The Beta release includes the first seven chapters. To download the excerpts from the book or for more information, please visit the book web page at The Pragmatic Programmers. I want to thank each and everyone who contributed into the making of this book, Dan Steinberg, in particular, for editing this book, and the Pragmatic Programmers for publishing it.

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Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. He is author of ".NET Gotchas," coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning "Practices of an Agile Developer," author of "Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer" and "Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual Machine" (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

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