SF Scala: Martin Odersky, Scala -- the Simple Parts

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Martin, the creator of Scala, outlines the "core" components of Scala which make it simple to reason about programming. Martin's sequence is a great way for a novice to approach Scala, and for a veteran to realign concepts along a good orthogonal basis.

[zanfranceschi]

what a talk. he's so concise and uses such a simple vocabulary that one may find scala is actually easy!

[smuralimohan]

What an insightful talk! Wish I could click the 'like' button 10 times.

[kagan]

I love Martin's suggestion not to pack to many statements together but instead create a few simple statements instead!

[SHEKINAHVOICING]

This is a very good talk on scala. I consider it great for me as i am just about to start programming in scala.
My request to all is, is there a way to get the ppt of this presentation.
I will really like to have it.

[binqu]

Where can I find the slides for the talk?

[saikrishnapujari]

Been using Scala for 3 years .. still scope to learn

[mounirbenhalla]

why there is no subtitle to frenche language  to helping  people be more learning  scala  concepte

[teckyify]

I don't get it, he says Scala is simple but then starts to enumerate this giant result set of feature interaction.

[sobanya_]

He skipped the most interesting slide, that talks about SML "for the interest of time"

[kirillkhvenkin]

Great talk, but i disagree that tail recursion is such a great thing. It is pretty unnatural in many situations such as when you iterate over a table.

I was doing fine up until that random word gabbler with the camera tripped my "not worth it" circuit breaker.

[nyahhbinghi]

Monkey-patching has to be one of the worst practices in programming. What you should do is inherit from the class and then add the method. Adding the method directly to the root class is just a horrible horrible practice that is bound to cause conflicts in any complex, interoperable or open source system

[abhishekghosh]

Make life simple, learn Haskell.

Start with C, move to Haskell.

Or the other way round.

Think of Obi-Wan and Yoda

Batman and Superman

Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

Ok, maybe that last one stretched it too far.