Scala Resources

Articles

• The A-Z of programming languages: From Pizza to Scala
  by Martin Odersky, August 24, 2011.
• Simple or Complicated ?
  by Martin Odersky, August 26, 2010.
• The Joy of Scala
  by John Pretty, Vince Kenealy and Peter O'Sullivan, October 31, 2010.
• Understanding actor concurrency
  Part 1: Actors in Erlang, February 24, 2009
  Part 2: Actors on the JVM, March 26, 2009
  by Alex Miller.
  JavaWorld
• Pattern Matching in Scala
  by Michael Rüegg, December 2009
  University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil

Blogs

• Scalada - all about Scala by Henrik Huttunen.
• λ Tony’s blog λ by Tony Morris.

Books

My favorite books are

• Programming in Scala - A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide
  by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon and Bill Venners, 2008 (1st Ed.)
  Artima (ISBN: 978-0-9815316-1-8)

Other books about Scala are

• Scala for the Impatient
  Cay Horstmann, March 2012
  Safari Books (ISBN: 978-0-321-77409-5)
• Actors in Scala
  by Philipp Haller, Frank Sommers, 2010 (1^st Ed.)
  Artima (ISBN: 978-0-9815316-2-5)
• DSLs in Action
  by Debasish Ghosh, 2011
  Manning (ISBN: 978-1-93518245-0)
  Gosh presents how to design and implement DSLs using modern languages like Ruby, Groovy, Scala, and Clojure.
• Programming Scala
  by Dean Wampler and Alex Payne, September 2009 (1st Ed.)
  O'Reilly (ISBN: 978-0-596-15595-7)
  Alex Payne is leading the API team at Twitter, Inc., one on the first companies to successfully deploy Scala in production. The authors assume that the reader is well versed in object-oriented programming, but don’t assume that he has prior exposure to functional programming.
• Programming Scala - Tackle Multicore Complexity on the JVM
  by Venkat Subramaniam, 2009 (1st Ed.)
  The Pragmatic Bookshelf (ISBN: 978-1-934356-31-9)
• Steps in Scala - An Introduction to Object-Functional Programming
  by Christos K. K. Loverdos and Apostolos Syropoulos, 2010 (1st Ed.)
  Cambridge University Press (ISBN: 978-0-521-74758-5)

Tools

• Apache Ant is a free Java build tool. It has been used for quite a long time at LAMP/EPFL to build Scala programs including the Scala software distribution.
• Scala IDE is a free Eclipse plugin.
• sbt is a simple build tool for Scala.