Steps in Scala : an introduction to object-functional programming / Christos K.K. Loverdos, Apostolos Syropoulos.

"Scala is a highly expressive, concise and scalable language. It is also the most prominent method of the new and exciting methodology known as object-functional programming. In this book, the authors show how Scala grows to the needs of the programmer, whether professional or hobbyist. They teach Scala with a step-by-step approach and explain how to exploit the full power of the industry-proven JVM technology. Readers can then dive into specially chosen design challenges and implementation problems, inspired by the trials of real-world software engineering. It also helps readers to embrace the power of static typing and automatic type inference. In addition, the book shows how to use the dual-object and functional-oriented natures combined at Scala's core, and so write code that is less 'boilerplate', giving a genuine increase in productivity"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-473) and indexes.

Print version record.

1. Introduction -- 2. Core features -- 3. Advanced features -- 4. Parser builders -- 5. XML processing -- 6. GUI programming -- 7. Concurrent programming -- 8. On paths and a bit of algebraic abstractions -- 9. Virtual files coming into existence -- 10. Compositional file matching -- 11. Searching, iterating, traversing -- 12. The expression problem -- 13. A computer algebra system -- Appendix A. Multimedia processing -- Appendix B. Distributing a Scala application along with Scala itself -- Appendix C. Working with the compiler and the interpreter -- Appendix D. Scala's grammar.

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