On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Peter Robinett <pe...@bubblefoundry.com>wrote:

>
> David's Beginning Scala book is fantastic: it's perfectly paced, gets
> straight to the point, and is written in a nice voice.
>

Guess I owe you a beer for that promo :-)


>
> Peter Robinett
>
> On Oct 15, 4:41 pm, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Viktor Klang <viktor.kl...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > I started Scala 2 years ago by reading the Lift code.
> > > so DPPs basically responsible for my Scala code... ;)
> >
> > So what you're saying is that you're all my fault... gak. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, opyate <opy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> Hello,
> >
> > >> I bought the Scala book in PDF format (Odersky/Spoon/Venners) and
> > >> pretty much jumped around it (benefit of PDF is the hyperlinks) for
> > >> about a week. I am probably proficient with everything in chapters
> > >> 1-18 which is still pretty much beginner/novice level, but I need the
> > >> web/book before I tackle most other concepts.
> >
> > >> But I just wanted to get my hands dirty with a couple of apps and
> > >> dived straight in. You learn by doing. You learn by reading someone
> > >> else's code, which is what I've been doing a lot with the Lift sources
> > >> (I have a local Git clone, and set it up in Eclipse).
> >
> > >> So, in a nutshell: learn the Scala basics, and get your hands dirty.
> > >> Open a console and faff about, then start writing apps! :-)
> >
> > >> What I've done so far can be found here:
> > >>http://github.com/opyate/Ken
> > >>http://github.com/opyate/yauser
> >
> > >> Happy coding!
> > >> Juan
> >
> > >> On Oct 15, 6:07 am, ngocdaothanh <ngocdaoth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> > Hi,
> >
> > >> > I have experience with Rails and Java. I'm new to Scala and Lift. I
> > >> > want to ask how much Scala knowledge is needed to start coding a
> > >> > simple blog with Lift?
> >
> > >> > Rails is easy to learn because it require little Ruby knowledge to
> get
> > >> > started. Having read the Lift book, I feel one must have some
> advanced
> > >> > Scala knowledge to get started. Could anyone provide some kind of
> > >> > guideline or curriculum of Scala and Lift to get started with Lift?
> >
> > >> > I would like to write a simple blog to learn Lift. But don't know
> how
> > >> > much Scala knowledge I should have to jump in Lift.
> >
> > >> > Thanks.
> >
> > > --
> > > Viktor Klang
> >
> > > Blog: klangism.blogspot.com
> > > Twttr: viktorklang
> > > Wave: viktor.kl...@googlewave.com
> > > Code: github.com/viktorklang
> >
> > > AKKA Committer - akkasource.org
> > > Lift Committer - liftweb.com
> > > Atmosphere Committer - atmosphere.dev.java.net
> > > SoftPub founder:http://groups.google.com/group/softpub
> >
> > --
> > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net
> > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890
> > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp
> > Surf the harmonics
> >
>


-- 
Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net
Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890
Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp
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