Programming in Scala, Fifth Edition

Bill Venners, Lex Spoon, Frank Sommers

ISBN 10: 0997148004 / ISBN 13: 9780997148008

Published by Artima Inc, CA, 2021

About this Item

Programming in Scala is the definitive book on Scala, the popular language for the Java platform that blends object-oriented and functional programming concepts into a unique and powerful tool for developers.The fifth edition has been updated to cover new features up to, and including, Scala version 3.0.The Scala language has been exploding in popularity in recent years. More than 54,000 copies of Programming in Scala have been sold since the first edition was published in 2008.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Programming in Scala, Fifth Edition
• Publisher: Artima Inc, CA
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997148004
• ISBN 13: 9780997148008
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is the authoritative tutorial on the Scala programming language, co\-written by the language\x27s designer, Martin Odersky. This fifth edition is a major rewrite of the entire book, adding new material to cover the many changes in Scala 3.0. In fact we have added so much new material that we split the book into two volumes. This volume is a tutorial of Scala and functional programming.

About the Author

Martin Odersky is the creator of the Scala language. He is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where since 2001 he has led the team that developed the Scala language libraries, and compiler. He is a founder of Lightbend, Inc., and was a co-designer of Java generics and the original author of the current javac reference compiler. Lex Spoon worked on Scala for two years at EPFL and is now a software engineer at Square, Inc. Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc. He is a community representative on the Scala Center Advisory Board, and the designer of ScalaTest. Frank Sommers is president of Autospaces, Inc.