Workshop: Tweet"The Seductions of Scala"

Track: Language Track / Time: Thursday 09:00 - 12:00 / Location: Wandsworth

Dean was seduced by the Scala language several years ago. This hands-on tutorial will show you why. Attendees will see how Scala fixes many issues with Java's object model and type system, adds powerful Functional Programming features, and provides a great platform for creating Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and distributed systems.

Keywords: Scala, Functional Programming, Concurrency, Distributed Systems

Target Audience: This tutorial will appeal to developers interested in functional programming and new languages on the JVM, especially for building distributed systems.

I will assume that you already know other programming languages and that you are comfortable writing code for this hands-on tutorial. Bring your laptop with Scala V2.10 installed and your favourite text editor or IDE.

Dean Wampler, TweetBig Dataist, O'Reilly Author

Biography: Dean Wampler

Dean Wampler is a Principal Consultant at Think Big Analytics, where he specializes in "Big Data" problems and tools like Hadoop and Machine Learning. Besides Big Data, he specializes in Scala, the JVM ecosystem, JavaScript, Ruby, functional and object-oriented programming, and Agile methods. Dean is a frequent speaker at industry and academic conferences on these topics. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington.