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by kamaal
4086 days ago
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If any one from the scala community is hearing. This is what I have to say as a newbie who started learning Scala a couple of days back. Free learning resources. There are no good free scala books which can teach you the language in the way it is supposed to be learned. Not something expected of a language which wishes to compete with something like Java on the longer run. The biggest issue I have faced so far is learning from scattered blog post all over the internet explaining the powers of scala, even before introducing how to use the very basic features to build simple things. There is too much assumption about what the programmer already knows, or about the programmer's background is; while introducing these features. As some one who is not familiar with the Math behind most of these functional programming concepts, every thing goes over like water poured over a stone when the documentation talks about Types, Category theory, Monads. In fact it took me a great deal of simplification, and thought to understand concepts like map, reduce, foldLeft, foldRight. Most of it was in language totally unpalatable to an ordinary programmer. Talking in a language understandable only to Phd students won't work for nearly all of the programming world. So far my introduction to Scala has been similar to seven blind men describing an elephant by touch various parts of the elephant's body. |
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Partially free:
Atomic Scala also has at least a free sample, which expects basically no programming experience at all: http://www.atomicscala.com/free-sample/
Scala for the Impatient is also nice, but is more intended to help programmers get up to speed with Scala as fast as possible: http://www.horstmann.com/scala/index.html