[INTRO] Akka basic Dojo

(ATTENTION! Date is tentative, rescheduling might be necessary)

Coursera is running it's "Principles of reactive programming" MOOC (https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive).

Joan Casadellà will host a hands-on session for us all to get introduced to Akka. He suggested scheduling it for the same week when the MOOC is introducing Actors so that you can get to learn from the best in that Akka thingy (that'd be Joan). #trollFace

Please bring your laptop and please have it prepared for some scala coding. If it's your first time coding scala here's some tips:

1. Install a decent JVM (Oracle's hotspot 1.7+ or 1.8+)

2. Install SBT (http://www.scala-sbt.org/download.html) and clone https://github.com/jcasadella/akka-quick-sort-skeleton . That repo is an skeleton to start coding with Akka. To ensure your SBT and repo clone work try the command: $ cd akka-quick-sort-skeleton; sbt clean test package

3. Install an IDE supporting Scala code editing. Prefereably with SBT project import too. See http://scala-ide.org/ or https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/?id=1347