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# Scala in Action: Covers Scala 2.10 First Edition

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    Be prepared to put in some effort, but the benefits are worth it.
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2014*

I agree with other reviewers that this is not an introductory book in Scala.  On the other hand it pulls together a number of intermediate and advanced topics and presents them in a very useful way.Be prepared to spend some time with the examples to work out for yourself some of the details of what is going on.  The examples provided give a good overview of the techniques and language features used but I found there were a number of details that I just didn't get on the first few passes.  Google, StackOverflow, and some blogs turned out to be very helpful in rounding out my understanding of these examples and I walked away with a much greater understanding of the language, its features, and these more advanced uses than I ever would have without this book.This book provided the first explanation of the State Monad I have felt I actually understood.  This is a real accomplishment.  I tried understanding the explanations in Haskell and F# and even some of the explanations in Scala that I found on the net and they all left me at least a little confused.  Chapter 5 gave an explanation that (eventually) clicked with me.  For that alone the book is worth the price.One note on the examples.  My experience may not match that of most developers.  I have worked on a lot of embedded systems dealing with everything from the UI to interacting with hardware.  But I have not done much with databases or web development.  So, the examples chosen don't speak directly to my background.  Even so, I was still able to follow the examples.  My current Scala project is a DSL using Scala's parser combinator library.  So I would have liked to see an example along these lines.  However, that might not have really met the objectives of the book.  What was provided helped me anyway.For the purpose of full disclosure, I started this book as a relative novice in Scala.  When I ran into some roadblocks I realized my knowledge of the language and even some basic functional programming techniques needed to be better so I got another book (Odersky) to get me up to speed on the language, and, just to be safe, I also read "Learn you a Haskell.." to make sure I had a good understanding of basic functional programming techniques in another language as well.  Then I came back to Scala in Action and it really made a difference.  Some Scala syntax is given a reasonable explanation (higher-kinded types in chapter 6, for example) but others are not explained at all, expecting you to be able to figure it out.  I think the mix works well if you have a well-grounded understanding of the language to begin with.

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    not a good introduction
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 7, 2013*

This is an advanced book for advanced developers. Do not buy this book as your first book about Scala; it is a very poor introduction. Example: here are the two definitions offered for Closure >> Closure is a first-class function with free variables that are bound in the lexical environment.... A Closure is any function that closes over the environment in which it's defined. << If those definitions make sense to you, then OK, buy the book. Me, I'm not smart enough, I had to go to Wikipedia in order to understand what Closures are. Need another example? Pattern-matching looked pretty easy at first, because it looks so much like the Java Switch statement (and they can be similar). But then the author drops this on the reader: List(1, 2, 3, 4) match { case f :: s :: rest => List(f, s) case _ => Nil } result: List[Int] = List(1, 2). If that makes sense to you, then OK, buy the book. The author gives almost no explanation, writing only: >>Think of it as what it will take to create a List of 1, 2, 3, and 4 from the expression f :: s :: rest, and then this will make more sense.<< There are other examples. I have many years in software development but this book is not helping me understand Scala. And the author claims you'll enjoy learning this fun language! Maybe it's just me, maybe developers more clever than I can get some benefit from this challenging, high-level approach.

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    Awesome Beginner/Intermediate Read to learn Scala for Java Programmer
  

*by S***P on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 25, 2013*

Being an experienced Java programmer I found what I was looking for to learn Scala in this book. This is well written for a person who knows how to program and who is willing to appreciate two key aspects of Scala - conciseness and functional programming. I think this was witten by a person who is a strong programmer and knows how to effectively communicate the key points of this language.

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