Book description
With its flexibility for programming both small and large projects, Scala is an ideal language for teaching beginning programming. Yet there are no textbooks on Scala currently available for the CS1/CS2 levels. Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala presents many concepts from CS1 and CS2 using a modern, JVM-based language that works we
Table of contents
- Preliminaries
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
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Part I Introductory Concepts
- Chapter 1 Basics of Computers, Computing, and Programming
- Chapter 2 Getting to Know the Tools
- Chapter 3 Scala Basics
- Chapter 4 Conditionals
- Chapter 5 Functions
- Chapter 6 Recursion for Iteration
- Chapter 7 Arrays and Lists in Scala
- Chapter 8 Loops
- Chapter 9 Text Files
- Chapter 10 Case Classes
- Chapter 11 GUIs
- Chapter 12 Graphics
- Chapter 13 Sorting and Searching
- Chapter 14 XML
- Chapter 15 Recursion
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Part II Object-Orientation, Abstraction, and Data Structures
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Chapter 16 Object-Orientation
- 16.1 Basics of Object-Orientation
- 16.2 Revisiting the API
- 16.3 Meaning of case classes
- 16.4 import Options
- 16.5 End of Chapter Material
- Chapter 17 Bigger Programs/New Tools
- Chapter 18 A Project (Drawing Program)
- Chapter 19 Abstraction and Polymorphism
- Chapter 20 Other Collection Types
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Chapter 21 Multithreading and Concurrency
- 21.1 The Multicore Future
- 21.2 Basic Threads
- 21.3 Concurrency Library
- 21.4 Parallel Collections
- 21.5 Introduction to Scala Actors
- 21.6 Multithreaded Mandelbrot (Project Integration)
- 21.7 Multithreading in GUIs
- 21.8 Animated Bouncing Balls (Project Integration)
- 21.9 End of Chapter Material
- Chapter 22 Stream I/O
- Chapter 23 Networking
- Chapter 24 Stacks and Queues
- Chapter 25 Linked Lists
- Chapter 26 Priority Queues
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Chapter 27 Refactoring
- 27.1 Smells
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27.2 Refactorings
- 27.2.1 Built-in Refactoring Methods
- 27.2.2 Introduce Null Object
- 27.2.3 Add and Remove Parameter
- 27.2.4 Cures for Switch Statements
- 27.2.5 Consolidate Conditional Expression
- 27.2.6 Convert Procedural Design to Objects
- 27.2.7 Encapsulate Collection
- 27.2.8 Push Down or Pull Up Field or Method
- 27.2.9 Substitute Algorithm
- 27.3 End of Chapter Material
- Chapter 28 Recursion
- Chapter 29 Trees
- Chapter 30 Regular Expressions and Context-Free Parsers
- Chapter 31 Spatial Trees
- Chapter 32 Binary Heaps
- Chapter 33 Direct Access Binary Files
- Chapter 34 Actors
- Chapter 35 Augmenting Trees
- Chapter 36 Wrapping Up
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Chapter 16 Object-Orientation
- Appendix A Quick Preview of Java
- Appendix B Advanced Scala Concepts
- Appendix C Glossary
- Bibliography
Product information
- Title: Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): Chapman and Hall/CRC
- ISBN: 9781498759687
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