Scala: From a Functional Programming Perspective

Vicenç Torra

ISBN 10: 3319464809 / ISBN 13: 9783319464800

Published by Berlin Springer International Publishing Springer Sep 2016, 2016

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 124 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scala: From a Functional Programming Perspective
• Publisher: Berlin Springer International Publishing Springer Sep 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319464809
• ISBN 13: 9783319464800
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Lecturer of a course on advanced programming and for master students in the University of Skövde