My advice, if your generally / vaugly familiar with Scala from reading PiS (that truly is a very unfortunate acronym!) just dive into making a lift app, then go from there.
One of the best things about Lift is the community - if you have questions, chances are its either already in the group archive from one of our many debates, or in the lift book, or if not, just ask on the mailing list and someone will no doubt help you right quick! Good luck! Tim On 03/04/2009 23:01, "Charles F. Munat" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd suggest that you start working in Lift, then when you encounter > something that doesn't make sense to you, refer to the PiS book > (unfortunate acronym). It helps if you have the PDF version because you > can search. The index is OK, but often insufficient. > > This is the approach I used to get started, though eventually I went > back and read most of the book sequentially (I still have a couple of > chapters to go). Take a look also at DPP's book and the online Lift > book, both easily searchable. > > If you want to jump ahead in the book, I'd recommend the following: > > 15: Case Classes and Pattern Matching > 16: Working with Lists > 23: For Expressions Revisited > > Lists, for expressions, case classes, and pattern matching are used *all > over the place* in Lift. You can't be too familiar with these. > > Then maybe: > > 19: Type Parameterization > 21: Implicit Conversions and Parameters > > You don't need to understand those thoroughly, but having some > familiarity with them will help with debugging and understanding what > the heck is going on. > > If you have time, you could also read the following to fill in a few gaps: > > 22: Implementing Lists > 26: Working with XML > > And if you're going to use Comet, you should probably read: > > 30: Actors and Concurrency > > But again, you can dive in and then reference these chapters as necessary. > > Chas. > > lmorroni wrote: >> Hi, >> I am a Java programmer that is interested in learning Lift. I have >> just finished the first six chapters of Programming in Scala. I >> wonder what people's opinions are on how much of this book I need to >> read before diving into Lift. I attempted to dive into Lift without >> reading anything on Scala and that worked great until I wanted to >> start reviewing the Lift libraries :) >> Maybe there are some chapters in this book that I can skip? I think >> the book is really well written and I have followed everything so >> far. I just would rather get rolling on Lift sooner rather than >> later. >> Larry >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
