Hi guys, I know this is more a Scala question than a Lift one but I do all my web programming within frameworks and I find it's easiest to learn a language when doing a real project...
Are there any tutorials, let alone good ones, introducing Scala (and Lift) to programmers with no knowledge or interest in Java? I've seen several introductions to Scala for Java programmers (Scala for Java Refugees and Alex Blewitt's articles look particularly in- depth) but next to nothing for people with other backgrounds. I know that most Scala people are coming from Java but I would imagine that there is something for us coming from beyond the Java world. As for me, I've done a lot of stuff in PHP (CakePHP) and Python (Pylons, Django) and have spent the last six months mostly doing front- end work in Javascript. Basically I'm a quick and dirty interpreted language coder and I'm now looking at Scala because I believe my next project will demand (near) real-time performance that I don't think I'd be able to get in my usual languages. Lift looks like a really nice framework and its Comet, XMPP and OSGI integration are things I will most likely use in the project. As somewhat of an aside, I'd like to add my two cents about the existing tutorials. The To Do tutorial was quite nice and a great introduction to Lift but didn't leave me at the point where I'm be comfortable writing my own stand-alone code. I wanted to then do the PocketChange tutorial (thanks for putting the PDF of the book online!) but it's way too high-level for me and glosses over a bunch of stuff. For instance, "import ... standard imports ..." is very unhelpful for me – I still don't know what are the standard Lift imports! Finally, the tutorial code snippets on the wiki are very useful. Like I said, I understand that I'm looking for more a Scala tutorial than a Lift one but I appreciate any links and suggestions. Thanks for the great work on the project and as I make progress in my learning I promise to write up my experiences! Peter Robinett --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
