Description
Scala: From a Functional Programming Perspective, 1st ed. 2016
An Introduction to the Programming Language
Programming and Software Engineering Series
Author: Torra Vicenç
Language: EnglishSubject for Scala: From a Functional Programming Perspective:
Keywords
algebraic data types; functional language; imperative languages; parallelism; abstract data types; classes and methods; functional programming; Haskell; infinite lists; Java; lazy evaluation; learning by doing; object-oriented programming; pattern matching; polymorphism; Prolog; recursion; standard ML; structured data
Support: Print on demand
Description
/li>Contents
/li>Biography
/li>Comment
/li>
This book gives an introduction to the programming language Scala. It presents it from a functional programming perspective. The book explains with detail functional programming and recursivity, and includes chapters on lazy and eager evaluation, streams, higher-order functions (including map, fold, reduce, and aggregate), and algebraic data types. The book also describes the object-oriented aspects of Scala, as they are a fundamental part of the language. In addition, the book includes a chapter on parallelism in Scala, giving an overview of the actor model.
An introduction to functional programming languages.- The basics of the language.- Lazy and eager evaluation.- Object-oriented programming in Scala.- Types and classes revisited: polymorphism.- Scala: OOL and FP.- Algebraic data types.- Parallelism.
Provides a concise introduction of the language from the functional programming perspective
Useful to learn the language, serves also as a reference
Based on a 'Master on Data Science' course on 'Advanced Programming' started in 2015-2016 at the University of Skövde, Sweden
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras