Rate this book

Scala For The Impatient (2012)

by Cay S. Horstmann(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0321774094 (ISBN13: 9780321774095)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Addison-Wesley Professional

review 1: It worked for me! This was a great way for me to learn Scala. I come from an atypical background, though: I've done plenty of functional and object-oriented programming. I was a bit weak on the Java side of things. But I picked this book up quickly, for the most part. It doesn't waste time introducing you to programming concepts, so it's good for those who have a lot of background. I did find that in the last few chapters, some of the concepts weren't as clearly motivated as early on. I kept wondering why actors were set up the way they were, for example. The model seemed awkward and lacked the static typing considered so important elsewhere. Some historical context of the decades-old actor model would have helped.
review 2: A really outstanding lightning tour ... morethrough the Scala language. My only beef is that it is occasionally too lightning; maybe I am not impatient enough. Trying to cover so much ground so fast means that many concepts are only slightly touched upon and, since the book tends to build on previous parts of the book, this left me asea at times such that I would have to go back and re-read sections as well as go online to figure things out.However, this is a relatively minor quibble considering the ground covered and the quality of the writing. Overall, I would recommend this to anyone coming from a Java background who wants to see what this Scala thing is all about before diving into some of the beefier texts that are out there. less

Download links for: Scala for the Impatient

Advertising