http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/11/learning-scala/ Wanderings into computational linguistics, science, social media and life... Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/11/learning-scala/#comment-2265 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:46:34 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/?p=1212#comment-2265 (The link for the book is: http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/index.html)

]]> http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/11/learning-scala/#comment-2264 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:44:46 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/?p=1212#comment-2264 When I started learning Scala, I used the available docs in http://www.scala-lang.org. Now I have the book and is a lot better :)
Another book that may be interesting is “Programming Scala” (O’Reilly ). I’ve read a couple of chapters online and looks very good.

]]> http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/11/learning-scala/#comment-1922 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:29:37 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/?p=1212#comment-1922 I tried to watch this Google video on Scala by Odersky: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=553859542692229789&ei=5RiCSrLZN8nylQeRnIy3DQ&q=scala&hl=en Couldn’t really get too far but perhaps one has to be in a certain mood for this – hope as you mention that the book is better. Been thinking again about implementations, permutations and implementation possibilities of Weizenbaum’s Eliza programming methodologies (Rogerian analysis). I wonder how this would be implemented in Scala or Ruby or possibilities of combining this with an Endeca type catalog. Recently got out Weizenbaum’s early book on the potential or lack of potential for AI “Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum Been thinking about this in light of much of the current discussion surrounding Ray Kurzweil, Singularity University and have recently ordered a documentary done on Weizenbaum before he died, Rebel at Work: http://www.ilmarefilm.org/W_E_4.htm

]]> http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/11/learning-scala/#comment-1911 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:03:17 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/?p=1212#comment-1911 Yeah the fact that Twitter switched over in part is one of the reasons I became interested in Scala. I love that article’s tagline.

]]> http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/11/learning-scala/#comment-1907 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:57:59 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/?p=1212#comment-1907 I saw your Scala post a little earlier and came across this in research on Ruby/Twitter: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01/twitter_on_scala/

]]> http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/11/learning-scala/#comment-1811 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:06:02 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/?p=1212#comment-1811 Yes learning a programming language is time consuming but using commonalities between languages help a lot to speed learning. For example I’m learning Scala with the help of Rebol which has the most concise syntax on Earth :)
http://reboltutorial.com/scala

]]> http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/11/learning-scala/#comment-1804 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:07:06 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/?p=1212#comment-1804 The related posts wordpress is giving for this post are awful.

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