Github user heuermh commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16856#discussion_r101275374
--- Diff: docs/programming-guide.md ---
@@ -125,15 +124,12 @@ $ PYSPARK_PYTHON=/opt/pypy-2.5/bin/pypy
bin/spark-submit examples/src/main/pytho
<div data-lang="scala" markdown="1">
-The first thing a Spark program must do is to create a
[SparkContext](api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.SparkContext) object,
which tells Spark
-how to access a cluster. To create a `SparkContext` you first need to
build a [SparkConf](api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.SparkConf) object
-that contains information about your application.
-
-Only one SparkContext may be active per JVM. You must `stop()` the active
SparkContext before creating a new one.
+The first thing a Spark program must do is to create a
[SparkSession](api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession) object,
which tells Spark
+how to access a cluster. To create a `SparkSession`, you first need to
call `SparkSession.builder` to get the builder, then set
+information about your application via the builder, and finall call
`getOrCreate` on the builder to get the `SparkSession` instance.
--- End diff --
`finall` → `finally`
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