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Getting Started in Scala

This is my attempt to give Scala newcomers a quick-and-easy rundown to the prerequisite steps they need to a) try Scala, and b) get a standard project up and running on their machine. I'm not going to talk about the language at all; there are plenty of better resources a google search away. This is just focused on the prerequisite tooling and machine setup. I will not be assuming you have any background in JVM languages. So if you're coming from Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Haskell, or anywhere…  I hope to present the information you need without assuming anything.

Disclaimer It has been over a decade since I was new to Scala, and when I was new to Scala, I was coming from a Java and Ruby background. This has probably caused me to unknowingly make some assumptions. Please feel free to call me out in comments/tweets!

One assumption I'm knowingly making is that you're on a Unix-like platform. Sorry, Windows users.

Getting the JVM

@bsweger
bsweger / useful_pandas_snippets.md
Last active April 19, 2024 18:04
Useful Pandas Snippets

Useful Pandas Snippets

A personal diary of DataFrame munging over the years.

Data Types and Conversion

Convert Series datatype to numeric (will error if column has non-numeric values)
(h/t @makmanalp)

@shawndumas
shawndumas / soundex.js
Last active February 21, 2024 11:47
Soundex in JavaScript
var soundex = function (s) {
var a = s.toLowerCase().split(''),
f = a.shift(),
r = '',
codes = {
a: '', e: '', i: '', o: '', u: '',
b: 1, f: 1, p: 1, v: 1,
c: 2, g: 2, j: 2, k: 2, q: 2, s: 2, x: 2, z: 2,
d: 3, t: 3,
l: 4,