There are also at least two Lift books in the works. You can see the book that Tyler and I are working on here: http://github.com/tjweir/liftbook/tree/master
If you want to view the actual book you'll need LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ Derek On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Kris Nuttycombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I've actually found that building a Lift project is a fairly effective > means of learning Scala, because Lift tends to use a lot of idiomatic Scala > that you don't necessarily see in context when reading the Artima book. It > can be a lot to take on at once, but I've found that being exposed to and > forced to use some of the more unfamiliar language elements (coming from a > C/Java/Ruby background) has accelerated my uptake of those features. > Particularly when things haven't worked quite as expected and I've had to go > digging in the code to figure out what was going on. :) > > Kris > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Mike Pence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hey guys, >> >> Color me another Lift enthusiast from Rails-land. I am wondering if >> anyone who has been through the learning journey has a recommendation >> of how to go about it. I got the Artima book on Scala, and I am loving >> it, but it is a hefty tomb. I don't want to make the mistake I made >> when learning Rails of not learning the foundation language first, but >> I am eager to get my hands on some Lift. >> >> Advice? >> >> Best, >> Mike Pence >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
