Programming in Scala: Paperback – 22 March 2022 by Martin Odersky (Author), Lex Spoon (Author), Bill Venners (Author), Frank Sommers (Author)

“If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala.” —James Gosling Programming in Scala Fifth Edition is the definitive book on Scala, the popular language for the Java Platform that blends object-oriented and functional programming concepts into a unique and powerful tool for developers. Coauthored by the designer of the Scala language, this authoritative book will teach you, one step at a time, the Scala language and the ideas behind it. The book is carefully crafted to help you learn. The first few chapters will give you enough of the basics that you can already start using Scala for simple tasks. The entire book is organized so that each new concept builds on concepts that came before—a series of steps that promises to help you master the Scala language and the important ideas about programming that Scala embodies. A comprehensive tutorial and reference for Scala, this book will teach you the language and important libraries. If you read earlier editions, this fifth edition is a major rewrite of the book to cover Scala 3.0. Some chapters have been added and others removed. This edition describes Scala 3.0 in detail, including: · Enums and ADTs · Context parameters and givens · Extension methods · Quiet syntax and optional braces · Trait parameters · Union and intersection types · Export clauses · Top-level definitions Martin Odersky is the creator of the Scala language. He is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where since 2001 he has led the team that developed the Scala language, libraries, and compiler. He is a founder of Lightbend, Inc., and was a co- designer of Java generics and the author of the current javac reference compiler. Lex Spoon worked on Scala for two years at EPFL and is now a software engineer at Square, Inc. Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc. He is a community representative on the Scala Center Advisory Board, and the designer of ScalaTest. Frank Sommers is president of Autospaces, Inc.