Vaugly is *exactly* how familiar I am with Scala. :-) (That's a variant of ugly, right?)
Chas. Timothy Perrett wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
