Written by Dave Gurnell and Noel Welsh. Copyright Underscore Consulting LLP, 2015.
Creative Scala by Underscore Consulting LLP is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://github.com/underscoreio/creative-scala.
Creative Scala is a free ebook aimed at developers who have no prior experience in Scala. It is designed to give you a vital first taste of functional programming. We assume you have some familiarity with another programming language but little or no experience with Scala or other functional languages.
Our goal is to demonstrate the building blocks that Scala developers use to create programs in a clear, succinct, declarative manner. Working through the exercises in the book should take two to three hours, after which we hope you will have a feel of what Scala can do for your applications.
The exercises in Creative Scala are based on a functional graphics library called Doodle. Although Doodle is primarily designed to make programming fun and creative, it is based on universal concepts that can be applied to any business application.
Creative Scala uses Underscore's ebook build system, which is based on Node, Pandoc, and Grunt. You'll need to install the Grunt project dependencies the first time you check the project out:
brew install pandoc
npm install -g grunt-cli coffee-script
npm install
You will also need to install LaTeX to generate PDF output. Mac users are encouraged to install MacTeX.
Once you have installed the required dependencies,
use the following commands to build a single format.
Targets are placed in the dist directory:
grunt pdf
grunt html
grunt epub
The default behaviour is to build all formats:
grunt
Run the following to build the HTML format, start a local web server, and rebuild if you change any files:
grunt watch