Introducing Vala Programming: A Language and Techniques to Boost Productivity

✍ Scribed by Michael Lauer

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Get an introduction into the Vala programming language and learn about its syntax, semantics, and idioms. Do you want to boost your productivity? Are you interested in a programming language that combines the efficiency of a scripting language with the performance of a compiled language? Did you always want to write GTK+ or GNOME programs, but hate C with a passion? Read this book and learn Vala!
Introducing Vala Programming starts from Hello World and goes up to graphical user interfaces using GTK+, covering DBus interprocess communication, network programming, Linux specifics, and more. You’ll learn how to leverage external libraries and enhance Vala by writing bindings to new libraries.

What You Will Learn

• Discover the Vala programming language and how to use it to boost your productivity
• Use Vala syntax and semantics
• Write object-oriented code with Vala
• Work with DBus
• Implement networking with Vala
• Integrate and use external libraries with bindings and libgusb

Who This Book Is For
People with basic programming experience in any imperative programming language.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Introduction (Michael Lauer)....Pages 1-11
Getting Started (Michael Lauer)....Pages 13-32
Syntax and Semantics (Michael Lauer)....Pages 33-74
Object-Oriented Programming (Michael Lauer)....Pages 75-103
Networking (Michael Lauer)....Pages 105-125
UI Programming with GTK+ (Michael Lauer)....Pages 127-169
DBus (Michael Lauer)....Pages 171-200
Linux (Michael Lauer)....Pages 201-209
External Libraries (Michael Lauer)....Pages 211-234
Back Matter ....Pages 235-242

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Techniques