Scala: From a Functional Programming Perspective, 1st ed. 2016 An Introduction to the Programming Language Programming and Software Engineering Series

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, reduce, and aggregate), and algebraic data types. The book also describes the object-oriented aspects of Scala, as they are a fundamental part of the language. In addition, the book includes a chapter on parallelism in Scala, giving an overview of the actor model.

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.

Provides a concise introduction of the language from the functional programming perspective

Useful to learn the language, serves also as a reference

Based on a 'Master on Data Science' course on 'Advanced Programming' started in 2015-2016 at the University of Skövde, Sweden

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras