Programming with Scala: Language Exploration

✍ Scribed by Bhim P. Upadhyaya (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 developer’s 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 author’s 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Introduction to Computing (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 1-16
Scala Fundamentals (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 17-30
Classes and Objects (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 31-36
Control Structures (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 37-49
Operators (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 51-61
Data Input and Output (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 63-76
Inheritance and Composition (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 77-85
Traits (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 87-98
Functions (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 99-110
Pattern Matching (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 111-124
List Processing (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 125-136
The Scala Collections Framework (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 137-149
Actors (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 151-164
XML Processing (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 165-178
Parsing (Bhim P. Upadhyaya)....Pages 179-187
Back Matter ....Pages 189-194

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters