Scala: From a Functional Programming Perspective An Introduction to the Programming Language / [electronic resource] :
by Vicen�c Torra.
- XIII, 124 p. 7 illus. online resource.
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9980 0302-9743 ; .
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9980 .
An introduction to functional programming languages -- The basics of the language -- Lazy and eager evaluation -- Object-oriented programming in Scala -- Types and classes revisited: polymorphism -- Scala: OOL and FP -- Algebraic data types -- Parallelism.
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.