Scala: From a Functional Programming Perspective

By Vicenç Torra

Release : 2016-09-20

Genre : Programming, Books, Computers & Internet, Software, Computers

Kind : ebook

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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.

Scala: From a Functional Programming Perspective

By Vicenç Torra

Release : 2016-09-20

Genre : Programming, Books, Computers & Internet, Software, Computers

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
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.

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