12. Appendix: Resources

Note

Paradigm-specific resources are listed in the corresponding chapters’ “References” or “Further reading” sections. This appendix collects all resources in one place for easy reference.

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12.1. Key resources

• Code examples on GitHub

• Instructor’s videos on YouTube

• External playlist on YouTube

• External references/bookmarks on Diigo

• General resources

• Coding guidelines

• Library of research resources (LRR)

• Loyola library’s CS subject guide

• Some professional meetups around town

12.2. Code examples

The code examples for this course are at https://github.com/lucproglangcourse. (The non-Scala ones are much less likely to change.)

The recommended process for exploring an example is to fork it into your own GitHub account. Please create issues and/or submit pull requests with improvements or corrections.

It is important for you to receive notifications of changes to the key examples.

• The best way to achieve this is to receive notifications through your GitHub account by watching and/or starring the repositories of interest directly.

12.3. Recommended/supplementary texts

• Scala for the Impatient, Second Edition By: Cay S. Horstmann Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: December 15, 2016 available free on Safari

• Basics of Compiler Design By: Torben Mogensen available online (2024 revision)

• Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala By: Aleksandar Prokopec Publisher: Packt Publishing Pub. Date: November 28, 2014 available free on Safari

• Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks By: Paul Butcher Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf Pub. Date: June 30, 2014 available free on Safari

12.4. Additional texts on Scala

• Hands-On Scala By: Li Haoyi https://www.handsonscala.com/ Chapters 1-5 available free

• Programming in Scala, Fifth Edition By: Martin Odersky; Lex Spoon; Bill Venners Publisher: Artima Press Pub. Date: June 2021 https://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala_5ed

• Programming Scala, 3rd Edition By Dean Wampler Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. Pub. Date: June 2021 available free on Safari

• Scala Cookbook, 2nd Edition By: Alvin Alexander Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. Pub. Date: August 2021 available free on Safari companion site

• Scala Test-Driven Development By: Gaurav Sood Publisher: Packt Publishing Pub. Date: October 27, 2016 available free on Safari

• Functional Programming in Scala (advanced) By: Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason Foreword by Martin Odersky Publisher: Manning Publications Pub. Date: August 2014 available free on Safari

12.5. Online Scala resources

Note

The resources below vary in Scala version coverage. Resources marked [Scala 3] target current Scala; others may use Scala 2 syntax. For current Scala 3 documentation, start with the official Scala 3 book and Scala 3 tour. [Scala 3]

• Scala Exercises by 47 Degrees (interactive tutorial, recommended)

• SIGCSE Scala workshop

• The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala

• Twitter Scala School (Scala 2; syntax may differ from Scala 3)

• Scala resources from an Applied Text Analysis course

• Scala documentation site

• A Scala Tutorial for Java programmers (Scala 2, 2006; for current equivalents use the official Scala 3 tour)

• Scala API documentation

• Scala style guide

• Scala Cookbook (recommended)

• parboiled2 parser generator

• Cats documentation — typeclass abstractions (Functor, Monoid, Monad, etc.) for Scala (advanced)

• Cats Cheat Sheet — quick reference for Cats typeclasses and combinators (advanced)

12.6. Resources on program representation and interpretation

• Compiler design tutorial

• Abstract syntax tree

• Regular expressions

• Context-free grammars (CFGs)

• Extended BNF

• Parser generators

• Parser combinators

• Parsing expression grammars (PEGs)

• Interpreters

12.7. Other resources

• Bruce Maclennan’s programming language design principles

• Seven languages in seven weeks

• 10 programming languages that could shake up IT

• 7 programming languages on the rise

• Growing a Language by Guy Steele: video PDF

• Origami Programming by Jeremy Gibbons: PDF

• On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism by Cardelli and Wegner PDF

• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!

• Masterminds of Programming, 1st Edition By: Federico Biancuzzi; Shane Warden Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. Pub. Date: March 27, 2009 available on O’Reilly Learning

• Programming Language Pragmatics (3rd ed.) By: Michael L. Scott Pub date: Mar 23, 2009 Elsevier Science & Technology companion site

• Functional Thinking By: Neal Ford Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. Pub. Date: July 10, 2014 available free on Safari

• Real World Haskell By: Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen Publisher: O’Reilly Media. Pub. Date: November 2008 available online for free

• Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (3rd Edition) By: Simon Thompson Publisher Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 2012 online companion site