1. Scala Tutorial
2. Scala Overview
3. Scala Classes
4. Scala Singleton and Companion Objects
5. Scala Applications
6. Scala Variables
7. Scala Data Types
8. Scala Arrays
9. Scala if
10. Scala while
11. Scala for
12. Scala Exceptions + try catch finally
13. Scala Match Expressions
14. Compiling Scala with Ant

The Scala programming language is a newer, very interesting language, with a lot of new features compared to Java. The reason Scala is interesting to Java programmers is, that Scala is compiled to run on the Java Virtual Machine. In other words, Scala is compiled into Java bytecodes. This also means that you can use all Java classes in your Scala code. Even the Java classes you have developed yourself. This makes a transition to Scala cheaper, since a lot of Java code can be reused.

Some of the new, interesting features in Scala are closures, functions as objects, traits, concurrency mechanisms inspired by Erlang, and its support for DSL's (Domain Specific Languages).

Scala's home page is here:

http://www.scala-lang.org

Scala is a big language, so this Scala tutorial is work in progress. The Scala version used in the examples in this tutorial is Scala 2.8.0 .

I expect that you already know the basics of programming, and also of object oriented programming. This tutorial will explain how Scala deals with these topics, but it will not explain object oriented programming concecpts from scratch.

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