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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.

Venkat Subramaniam's complete blog can be found at: http://blog.agiledeveloper.com/

About 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. Venkat is also an adjunct faculty and teaches CS courses remotely at the University of Houston. 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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