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Re: [scala] Scala beginner

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On 6/10/09 6:09 AM, Christos KK Loverdos wrote:
> Hi Saleh,
>
> You mean you took a look at the Scala website and were not satisfied
> with the info provided there, or you just lost yourself into the wealth
> of info?
>
I agree that the website is (absolutely) insufficient. There are different approaches how to improve the site i guess.

Example: I looked for some examples (advanced if possible) of the "for comprehension". I looked at the node(http://www.scala-lang.org/node/111) and did not find it very appealing.

In my Opinion starting from the first Page there should be "use case" inspired Tour's of Scala

* Scala for Java Programmers
* Scala for functional Programmers
* Scala for Library Designers

I think most of the necessary information is already in form of articles/nodes available, it simply needs to be "linked" together. I know it is hard to provide code example, and to keep them up to date but in most case i use blogs for code examples since the site has not that many.
I wonder if there is a way to refrence to that code out there? There is so many good stuff out there.
Another nice thing i notice is the Scala User (Local) Groups. In most cases there is a introduction presentation. These slides differ quite a lot. I have seen some from the Paris or from Czech and other stuff.
These slides are good! IMO They should be referenced and maybe if the user groups communicate with each other you could find out what people who are new to scala are mostly interested in.

Well i just noticed that the scala site got update and many if not all point above are fixed! Taht is most impressive! Still some room for the User Group slides maybe , i think those are in particular interesting for Scala Beginners since they where all created to give an introduction to scala for new users.

I also remember reading Slides that where directly aimed at java programmers. I think to that it would be worth to create a tour of scala for java programmers and a tour of scala for functional programmers.

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