Early praise for Pragmatic Scala

A well-paced, easy-to-read, and practical guide to Scala for Java programmers. Covers important aspects of this powerful multi-paradigm language, ensuring that you can become productive with Scala right away.

Ramnivas Laddad
Author of AspectJ in Action, speaker, and consultant

In Pragmatic Scala, Venkat provides a solid foundation to help you get started with Scala in a thorough yet succinct book that you can (and should) read cover to cover. He explores the most important topics you’ll need to get comfortable with Scala, starting with the REPL and progressing through functional programming in Scala, handling concurrency with actors, and Java interoperability. You will definitely want to fire up your editor ...

Get Pragmatic Scala now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.