Getting Things Done in the Scala REPL - Li Haoyi

We're happy to have Li Haoyi join us virtually from Singapore!

Getting Things Done in the Scala REPL

The Scala REPL lets you interactively run Scala code snippets and see the results. This talk will explore how far you can stretch the Scala REPL, performing difficult tasks that you may normally associate with larger efforts. Through these exercises, we will see how much useful work you accomplish with a tiny amount of Scala code.

The talk begins at 6 PM.

Li Haoyi is the author of Hands-On Scala Programming which was just released: https://handsonscala.com

This book is designed to quickly teach an existing programmer everything needed to go from "hello world" to building production applications like interactive websites, parallel web crawlers, and distributed systems in Scala. In the process, you will learn how to use the Scala language to solve challenging problems in an elegant and intuitive manner.

This is a unique book in the Scala ecosystem, unlike any before, and you'll get something out of it no matter how little or how much Scala experience you have.

About Li:

Li Haoyi graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and since then has been a major contributor to the Scala community. His open source projects have over 10,000 stars on Github, and are downloaded over 7,000,000 times a month. Haoyi has used Scala professionally to build distributed backend systems, programming languages, high-performance web applications, and much more.

Haoyi writes a blog about Scala and other technical topics at www.lihaoyi.com