Scala: From a Functional Programming Perspective An Introduction to the Programming Language /

• Main Author: Torra, Vicenç (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9980
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer programming.; Software engineering.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Mathematical logic.; Computers.; Pattern recognition.; Computer Science.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Programming Techniques.; Software Engineering.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Models and Principles.; Pattern Recognition.

This book gives an introduction to the programming language Scala. It presents it from a functional programming perspective. The book explains with detail functional programming and recursivity, and includes chapters on lazy and eager evaluation, streams, higher-order functions (including map, fold,...

Table of Contents:

• An introduction to functional programming languages
• The basics of the language
• Lazy and eager evaluation
• Object-oriented programming in Scala
• Types and classes revisited: polymorphism
• Scala: OOL and FP
• Algebraic data types
• Parallelism.