Programming Scala - Trials and Tribulations

These are the trial and tribulations as I work through the Programming Scala book by Dean Wampler and Alex Payne.

Make a little spec, learn a little more

I worked through the book in kind of a different way.

Instead of printing results out (like a println("Hello world") script), I tried to approach this as if I was actually developing an app for it. So I learned the language by writing specs and asserting what I thought was supposed to happen. Usually I was wrong, but the tests would steer me in the right direction. I also had to figure out a way of building the application from the get-go. I started with Maven2,as I was very familiar with it, but settled with simple-build-tool. Simple-build-tool as a "~ action" flag which will watch your source directories and run the action on change. ~test-quick FTW.

Review

The book has been great. Certainly the most approachable way to learn the language. 4 1/2 stars (minus a point for its explanation of partial functions - not quite right)