Best Scala book for Java developers and beginners

By alvin ~ Posted Sat, 07/26/2014 - 12:27

As a quick note today (July 26, 2014), I’m glad to see that many Java developers and beginning Scala developers have said that the Scala Cookbook is the best Scala book available. I wrote the Cookbook from the perspective of a Java developer (as opposed to something like a functional programmer), and I’ve also taught computer programming classes for many years, so I considered these people to be in my target audience.

I don’t like to pay myself on the back, but I know it took me almost 15 months to write the Cookbook, I poured a ton of research into it, and I’m proud of it. Fortunately a lot of developers seem to like it. Here are a few of the comments posted on Amazon.com:

“Best Scala book in town.”

“Best Scala book by far in a group of many outstanding books.”

“Fantastic”

“Brilliant”

“Still the best”

Comments on the O’Reilly website include, “A great read,” “Fantastic Scala book,” “Highly recommended,”, and “Excellent purchase.”

You can find the Scala Cookbook at the following links:

I hope you can preview the book on one of those websites, and I further hope that you’ll like it and find it useful.

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