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Virginia Scala Scholars Meeting Notes
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1.30.14 Meeting Notes.md

Central Virginia Scala Scholars

Agenda

  1. Introductions
    • Name, company, kind of development, etc.
  2. Discussion
    • Scala: Expectations, Reality, Promise
  3. How might this group help make Scala a more productive?
  4. Ideas for future sessions?
  5. Host volunteers?

Introductions

  • Scala on Android in production
  • SBT
  • Comparison with Scheme and Clojure
  • Coursera class
  • OO and Functional with rich types
  • Akka Actors
  • 5 years Scala at CCRI
  • Play 2
  • C++, R, Python
  • Monads
  • https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
  • DSLs, int

Discussion

Basic SBT Build Definition

Basic build.sbt file

name := "hello"

version := "1.0"

scalaVersion := "2.10.2"

Assumes your project structure is:

hello/                  # your project's base directory

    Hello.scala         # a source file in your project (could be in
                        #   src/main/scala too)

    build.sbt           # build.sbt is part of the source code for the
                        #   build definition project inside project/

Web Frameworks

Goal of Group

  • Help people find answers to their Scala problems
  • Communications options:
    • Gist?
    • G+?
    • IRC? -> with history
    • Just email?
    • Email + IRC

Presentation Ideas

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