Programming with Scala: Language Exploration [Paperback]

This reader-friendly textbook presents a concise and easy to follow introduction to Scala. Scala is an ideal first programming language, which permits programming in multiple paradigms, and enables developers to be more productive with modern computing infrastructures such as distributed environments.

Topics and features: provides review questions and problem-solving exercises (with solutions) in each chapter, inspired by real-world applications; addresses each topic in a self-contained manner, highlighting how Scala can be evolved and grown according to the developers needs; presents examples from a broad range of different application domains, including consumer electronics, online payment, retail, vehicle manufacturing, and healthcare; encourages an innovation-oriented mind-set, and the development of practical, saleable skills; draws from the authors extensive experience in industrial software development, academic research, and university teaching.

This accessible and hands-on guide will embolden professional software engineers to make the switch to Scala. Instructors teaching introductory programming courses will also find this textbook popular among their students.

Introduction to Computing

Scala Fundamentals

Classes and Objects

Control Structures

Operators

Data Input and Output

Inheritance and Composition

Traits

Functions

Pattern Matching

List Processing

The Scala Collections Framework

Actors

XML Processing

Parsing

Bhim P. Upadhyaya is a certified enterprise architect, applicationlsL