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London Scala Users' Group:Scala: An Introduction
Scala: An Introduction
Martin Odersky, the created to the Scala language, will give an introduction to Scala and give you a demonstration of its capabilities. Whatever your programming background this introduction will give you an exciting insight into Scala the language and its uses.
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. Scala smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling developers to be more productive while retaining full interoperability with Java and taking advantage of modern multicore hardware.
Here,the London financial community has been fast to adopt Scala and new start-ups like Mind Candy have turned to it to get fast time-to-market. Perhaps it’s time you found out why and consider what it can do for you!
WANT TO LEARN MORE? THEN CHECK OUT OUR EXPERT WORKSHOPS!
Typesafe's Advanced Scala
If you already have some programming experience with Scala and
need
to understand it's advanced features, Typesafe's Advanced Scala will
show you how to unleash the full power of this scalable language.
It is intended to enable developers, who have at least 3 months
programming experience with Scala and feel comfortable to use it in
their applications, to fully understand various advanced features of
this programming language and how to apply these to create well
designed
libraries or DSLs using proven practices. Find out more here
Typesafe's Fast Track to Scala
This two-day Fast Track to Scala course, designed by Martin
Odersky,
the creator of the Scala programming language, and Heiko Seeberger,
a
recognized Scala expert, will give you an excellent grounding in
Scala.
LEARN HOW TO:
Be a competent user of Scala constructs in application code
Know and be able to apply the functional programming style in Scala
Know how to use the fundamental Scala tools
Be confident to start using Scala in production applications
Find out more here
Typesafe's Fast Track to Play
This one-day course, designed by Fredrik Ekholdt, a Scala and web
application expert, and Peter Hausel, one of the main Play
committers, is what you need to quick start your web application
development with Play 2.0.
This Play 2.0 course is intended to enable you to consolidate your
Scala skills and to learn about this great web framework. The course
is very practical and centred around a web application that you will
build from the ground up using Play 2.0. Find out more here
Typesafe's Fast Track to Akka
This two-day Fast Track to Akka course, designed by Philipp
Haller, a long-term member of the Scala team and recognized
concurrency expert, is what you need to get started building
powerful concurrent applications with the Akka event-driven
middleware framework. Upon completion of this Fast Track to Akka
course you will know how to apply the tools and services provided by
the Akka framework and runtime to build high-performance,
fault-tolerant systems that scale. Get more info and sign up here
David Pollak's Lift Basics Workshop
This Lift Basics course by David Pollak (creator of Lift)
introduces Scala and Java developers to the Lift Web Framework. You
will learn how to create dynamic, interactive, secure web sites
using Lift. Whether you are a Scala newbie or an intermediate Java
developer, David's practical hands-on style will help you understand
Lift's Java and Scala API's. Upon completion of this Lift course,
you will be able to create secure, dynamic Lift based sites.
Get more info and sign up here
Delivered by: Franz Bettag
Next course: September 24th & 25th
Location: London
ABOUT MARTIN ODERSKY
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Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is best known as the creator of the Scala programming language. Prior to that, he made several contributions to the development of Java.
He created the Pizza and GJ languages, design
More about Martin Odersky
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ABOUT THE LONDON SCALA USERS' GROUP
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PODCAST SCALA: AN INTRODUCTION
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Functional Programming in the enterprise
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London, Monday, June 3rd
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The London Clojure Community
FREE EVENT:
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London, Tuesday, June 4th
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Typesafe's Scaling up with Akka & Scala
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Philipp Haller London, Wednesday, June 5th
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Writing Concurrent Code with Lock-Free Algorithms
3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Martin Thompson London, Wednesday, June 5th
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Simplifying Asynchronous Code with Scala Async
FREE EVENT:
In The Brain of Philipp Haller
London, Wednesday, June 5th
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Scala Days NYC - June 10-12th
CONFERENCE (3 DAYS)
New York, Monday, June 10th
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F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group
FREE EVENT:
Machine Learning Hands On with
London, Thursday, June 13th
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