Table of Contents
Chapter 1: So You Want to Write a Book?
Overview of the Publication Process
A Word About Ourselves
Our Major Book Series
What Topics Are We Interested In?
Chapter 2: The Proposal
What Will the Book Be Good For?
The Market for the Book
The Outline
Schedule
Your Writing Sample
Tools
Who Are You?
Don't Hesitate to Ask Questions
Chapter 3: The Contract
The Form of the Contract
Description of the Book
The Grant of Rights
Format of the Book
Delivery of the Manuscript
Royalties and Advances
You Get to Audit our Books
Free Copies of the Book
Revised Editions of the Book
You Didn't Plagiarize Anything, Did You?
Final Legalese
Chapter 4: Writing and Editing
Working with Your Editor
Technical Review
Your Final Draft
Chapter 5: Design, Graphics, and Production
What Will My Book Look Like?
Getting the Book Ready for Press
Reprints and Revisions
Chapter 6: Marketing Your Book
O'Reilly Sales Channels
An Author Questionnaire
Before Publication
If You Have Questions
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
scala programming
The Scala Programming Language
Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express
common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It
smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages.
Scala is object-oriented
Scala is a pure object-oriented language in the sense that every value is an
object. Types and behavior of objects are described by classes and traits. Class
abstractions are extended by subclassing and a flexible mixin-based
composition mechanism as a clean replacement for multiple inheritance.
Scala is functional
Scala is also a functional language in the sense that every function is a value.
Scala provides a lightweight syntax for defining anonymous functions, it
supports higher-order functions, it allows functions to be nested, and supports
currying. Scala's case classes and its built-in support for pattern matching
model algebraic types used in many functional programming languages.
Furthermore, Scala's notion of pattern matching naturally extends to the
processing of XML data with the help of regular expression patterns. In this
context, sequence comprehensions are useful for formulating queries. These
features make Scala ideal for developing applications like web services.
Scala is statically typed
Scala is equipped with an expressive type system that enforces statically that
abstractions are used in a safe and coherent manner. In particular, the type
system supports:
generic classes,
variance annotations,
upper and lower type bounds,
classes and abstract types as object members,
compound types,
explicitly typed self references,
views, and
polymorphic methods.
An Introduction to Scala
A local type inference mechanism takes care that the user is not required to
annotate the program with redundant type information. In combination, these
features provide a powerful basis for the safe reuse of programming
abstractions and for the type-safe extension of software.
Scala is extensible
The design of Scala acknowledges the fact that in practice, the development of
domain-specific applications often requires domain-specific language
extensions. Scala provides a unique combination of language mechanisms that
make it easy to smoothly add new language constructs in form of libraries:
(i) any method may be used as an infix or postfix operator, and
(ii) closures are constructed automatically depending on the expected type
(target typing).
A joint use of both features facilitates the definition of new statements without
extending the syntax and without using macro-like meta-programming facilities.
Scala interoperates with Java and .Net
Scala is designed to interoperate well with popular programming environments
like the Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE) and the .Net CLR. In particular, the
interaction with mainstream object-oriented languages like Java and C# is as
smooth as possible.
Scala has the same compilation model (separate
compilation, dynamic class loading) like Java and C# and allows access to
thousands of high-quality libraries.
Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express
common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It
smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages.
Scala is object-oriented
Scala is a pure object-oriented language in the sense that every value is an
object. Types and behavior of objects are described by classes and traits. Class
abstractions are extended by subclassing and a flexible mixin-based
composition mechanism as a clean replacement for multiple inheritance.
Scala is functional
Scala is also a functional language in the sense that every function is a value.
Scala provides a lightweight syntax for defining anonymous functions, it
supports higher-order functions, it allows functions to be nested, and supports
currying. Scala's case classes and its built-in support for pattern matching
model algebraic types used in many functional programming languages.
Furthermore, Scala's notion of pattern matching naturally extends to the
processing of XML data with the help of regular expression patterns. In this
context, sequence comprehensions are useful for formulating queries. These
features make Scala ideal for developing applications like web services.
Scala is statically typed
Scala is equipped with an expressive type system that enforces statically that
abstractions are used in a safe and coherent manner. In particular, the type
system supports:
generic classes,
variance annotations,
upper and lower type bounds,
classes and abstract types as object members,
compound types,
explicitly typed self references,
views, and
polymorphic methods.
An Introduction to Scala
A local type inference mechanism takes care that the user is not required to
annotate the program with redundant type information. In combination, these
features provide a powerful basis for the safe reuse of programming
abstractions and for the type-safe extension of software.
Scala is extensible
The design of Scala acknowledges the fact that in practice, the development of
domain-specific applications often requires domain-specific language
extensions. Scala provides a unique combination of language mechanisms that
make it easy to smoothly add new language constructs in form of libraries:
(i) any method may be used as an infix or postfix operator, and
(ii) closures are constructed automatically depending on the expected type
(target typing).
A joint use of both features facilitates the definition of new statements without
extending the syntax and without using macro-like meta-programming facilities.
Scala interoperates with Java and .Net
Scala is designed to interoperate well with popular programming environments
like the Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE) and the .Net CLR. In particular, the
interaction with mainstream object-oriented languages like Java and C# is as
smooth as possible.
Scala has the same compilation model (separate
compilation, dynamic class loading) like Java and C# and allows access to
thousands of high-quality libraries.
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