don't buy the wampler book as a 1st book. too many forward references, you are constantly flipping pages.
also, portions of the scala api are a work in progress. constructs for multidimensional arrays have changed several times.
i may recommend the wampler book when they come out with a rewrite, say in a few months time. Now it seems too rushed. Some of it reads like a collection of blogposts.
Also wampler's idea of functional programming is very basic. No details on commonly used functional data structures or functional pgmming algorithms. More like "functional pgmming is X as opposed to OO pgmming is Y".
Okasaki's book ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138979 ) needs to be written in Scala. That'll sell a boatload of copies. Even a modest attempt at that would work for a start. That's an awesome book.
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don't buy the wampler book as a 1st book. too many forward references, you are constantly flipping pages.
also, portions of the scala api are a work in progress. constructs for multidimensional arrays have changed several times.
i may recommend the wampler book when they come out with a rewrite, say in a few months time. Now it seems too rushed. Some of it reads like a collection of blogposts.
Also wampler's idea of functional programming is very basic. No details on commonly used functional data structures or functional pgmming algorithms. More like "functional pgmming is X as opposed to OO pgmming is Y".
Okasaki's book ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138979 ) needs to be written in Scala. That'll sell a boatload of copies. Even a modest attempt at that would work for a start. That's an awesome book.