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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!

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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
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
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ABOUT THE LONDON SCALA USERS' GROUP
Come and meet other Software Developers interested in the Scala programming language.

Join the London Scala Users' Group (LSUG) community via the official website.

For more info. on Scala see: www.scala-lang.org

Scala logo is a trademark of EPFL
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PODCAST SCALA: AN INTRODUCTION
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Yodit Stanton:Machine Learning with Storm + Redis, Machine Learning with Storm + Redis
Yodit Stanton : 7th May 2013
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Bruce Durling:Cascalog for the 80% of Data Science, Cascalog for the 80% of Data Science
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Adam Mlocek:F# embedded in Excel, F# embedded in Excel
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Adam Mlocek:F# embedded in Excel part 2, F# embedded in Excel part 2
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Paul Brian:Pitfalls Of Using Frameworks, Pitfalls Of Using Frameworks
Paul Brian : 18th Apr 2013
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Emil Vaughan:Adventures with Cython, Adventures with Cython
Emil Vaughan : 18th Apr 2013
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Kris Saxton:My experience of using server management framework, Salt, Using server management framework, Salt
Kris Saxton : 18th Apr 2013
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Phil Trelford:Try F# Hands On, Try F# Hands On
Phil Trelford : 11th Apr 2013
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Jon Pretty:Rapture I/O, Rapture I/O
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Andres Löh:Datatype-Generic Programming in Haskell, Datatype-Generic Programming in Haskell
Andres Löh : 9th Apr 2013
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Aslak Hellesøy:Keynote: The Cucumber Ecosystem, Keynote: The Cucumber Ecosystem
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Matt Wynne:Why your step definitions should be one-liners and other pro tips, Why your step definitions should be one-
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F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group:F# on iPad and iPhone with Xamarin Studio, F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group
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Jon Pither Functional Programming in the enterprise,  Functional Programming in the enterprise
FREE EVENT: In The Brain of Jon Pither
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The London Clojure Community:Deuce is (not yet) Emacs under Clojure, The London Clojure Community
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London, Tuesday, June 4th
Philipp Haller:Typesafe's Scaling up with Akka and Scala,  Typesafe's Scaling up with Akka & Scala
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Philipp Haller
London, Wednesday, June 5th
Martin Thompson:Writing Concurrent Code with Lock-Free Algorithms with Martin Thompson,  Writing Concurrent Code with Lock-Free Algorithms
3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Martin Thompson
London, Wednesday, June 5th
Philipp Haller Simplifying Asynchronous Code with Scala Async,  Simplifying Asynchronous Code with Scala Async
FREE EVENT: In The Brain of Philipp Haller
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Scala Days NYC - June 10-12th, Scala Days NYC - June 10-12th
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New York, Monday, June 10th BOOK NOW!
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London, Thursday, June 13th
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