Scala Workshop at SIGCSE

Mark Lewis

Trinity University

Department of Computer Science

Konstantin Läufer and George K. Thiruvathukal

Loyola University Chicago

Department of Computer Science

Table of Contents

• 1. About Scala
  • 1.1. Why Scala?
• 2. Installing Scala
  • 2.1. Prerequisite: JDK
  • 2.2. Command-Line Tools
  • 2.3. Text Editors
  • 2.4. IDE Option: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
  • 2.5. IDE Option: Eclipse Scala IDE
• 3. Downloading these Materials
  • 3.1. scalaworkshop.com (Primary)
  • 3.2. scalaworkshop.cs.luc.edu (Mirror)
  • 3.3. Source Code Repositories
  • 3.4. Comments?
• 4. Scala in CS1
  • 4.1. Motivating Scala in CS1
  • 4.2. Getting Started
  • 4.3. Early Collection, Arrays and Lists
  • 4.4. Recursion for Iteration
  • 4.5. Some CS1 Friendly Examples
  • 4.6. More Scala
  • 4.7. Files
  • 4.8. Classes and Objects
  • 4.9. Useful REPL functionality
  • 4.10. Additional Resources
• 5. CS2
  • 5.1. Collections
  • 5.2. Case Classes
  • 5.3. GUIs
  • 5.4. CS2
• 6. Build Tools for Scala
  • 6.1. Why Use a Build Tool?
  • 6.2. Brief History of Build Tools
  • 6.3. sbt
  • 6.4. Plugin Ecosystem
• 7. Web Application and Services
  • 7.1. Professional Context
  • 7.2. Curricular Context
  • 7.3. Why Scala?
  • 7.4. Web Applications
  • 7.5. Web Services
• 8. Mobile Application Development with Android
  • 8.1. Tools
  • 8.2. Examples
  • 8.3. Lab Assignment
• 9. Basic Parallelism using Par
  • 9.1. Example: Trapezoidal Numeric Integration
  • 9.2. Download the Code
  • 9.3. Going Scala!
  • 9.4. Going Parallel
  • 9.5. Testing
  • 9.6. Running
  • 9.7. Initial Experiments with Performance
  • 9.8. Previous Work
• 10. Parallelism using Actors
  • 10.1. Guiding Example: Longest Common Subsequence
  • 10.2. Java Threads Implementation
  • 10.3. Scala Actors Implementation
• 11. Programming Language Topics
  • 11.1. Abstraction
  • 11.2. Representation

Indices and tables

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