Alex Payne Knihy

Altoona's transformation from a small prairie town to the "Entertainment Capital of Iowa" is marked by the arrival of trains, planes, and automobiles. The construction of Interstate 80 boosted tourism, making it home to notable attractions like Adventureland Park and Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino. The town also boasts a rich history of innovation, with residents like Robert Townsend and George Kurtzweil contributing groundbreaking ideas. This blend of traditional small-town charm and progressive vision creates a distinctive community identity.

Learn how to be more productive with Scala, a new multi-paradigm language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that integrates features of both object-oriented and functional programming. With this book, you'll discover why Scala is ideal for highly scalable, component-based applications that support concurrency and distribution.Programming Scala clearly explains the advantages of Scala as a JVM language. You'll learn how to leverage the wealth of Java class libraries to meet the practical needs of enterprise and Internet projects more easily. Packed with code examples, this book provides useful information on Scala's command-line tools, third-party tools, libraries, and available language-aware plugins for editors and IDEs.

Software development today is embracing functional programming (FP), whether it's to write concurrent programs or to manage Big Data. Where does that leave Java developers? This concise book offers a pragmatic, approachable introduction to FP for Java developers or anyone who uses an object-oriented language.