| Sumario: | Anyone starting a project in Scala, expanding a Scala project, or looking to establish coding standards as a means for helping junior Scala programmers come up to speed, will value this overview of Scala best practices by Scala expert Joshua Backfield. Backfield's extensive experience in both object-oriented programming and functional programming make him a Scala authority. He has ported multiple native C applications to Scala, introduced many coworkers to Scala, and taught them the underlying functional programming concepts. He uses that experience to offer a set of Scala guidelines that should make your Scala code base as great as it can be. Review and master the coding standards used by expert Scala programmers Learn methods for ensuring that junior level programmers adhere to coding standards Understand the norms for var and val usages and functions as objects Review standards for immutable vs. mutable data structures and for pattern matching Master axioms in OOP for use cases, instance methods, and mixing vs. deep inheritance Learn standards for advanced features like avoiding postfix notation and dynamic typing Understand best practices for syntax, concurrency, and self-documenting code Joshua F. Backfield, author of the O'Reilly title Becoming Functional: Steps for Transforming Into a Functional Programmer, has been a Senior Software Engineer at SPARC and Dell SecureWorks. In addition to Scala, his specialties include: Linux, LiftWeb, Squeryl, Java, Spring MVC, Spring, JAX-WS, C, C++, Perl, MySQL, BSD Socket, Functional Programming, and Akka. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from DePaul University and a B.S. in Electronic Systems from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
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