[Lift] Re: Best way to learn Lift
I've actually found that building a Lift project is a fairly effective means of learning Scala, because Lift tends to use a lot of idiomatic Scala that you don't necessarily see in context when reading the Artima book. It can be a lot to take on at once, but I've found that being exposed to and forced to use some of the more unfamiliar language elements (coming from a C/Java/Ruby background) has accelerated my uptake of those features. Particularly when things haven't worked quite as expected and I've had to go digging in the code to figure out what was going on. :) Kris On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Mike Pence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, Color me another Lift enthusiast from Rails-land. I am wondering if anyone who has been through the learning journey has a recommendation of how to go about it. I got the Artima book on Scala, and I am loving it, but it is a hefty tomb. I don't want to make the mistake I made when learning Rails of not learning the foundation language first, but I am eager to get my hands on some Lift. Advice? Best, Mike Pence --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Lift] Re: Best way to learn Lift
There are also at least two Lift books in the works. You can see the book that Tyler and I are working on here: http://github.com/tjweir/liftbook/tree/master If you want to view the actual book you'll need LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ Derek On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Kris Nuttycombe [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I've actually found that building a Lift project is a fairly effective means of learning Scala, because Lift tends to use a lot of idiomatic Scala that you don't necessarily see in context when reading the Artima book. It can be a lot to take on at once, but I've found that being exposed to and forced to use some of the more unfamiliar language elements (coming from a C/Java/Ruby background) has accelerated my uptake of those features. Particularly when things haven't worked quite as expected and I've had to go digging in the code to figure out what was going on. :) Kris On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Mike Pence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, Color me another Lift enthusiast from Rails-land. I am wondering if anyone who has been through the learning journey has a recommendation of how to go about it. I got the Artima book on Scala, and I am loving it, but it is a hefty tomb. I don't want to make the mistake I made when learning Rails of not learning the foundation language first, but I am eager to get my hands on some Lift. Advice? Best, Mike Pence --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Lift] Re: Best way to learn Lift
Awesome! I will check the book out and start putting together a Lift project soon! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Lift] Re: Best way to learn Lift
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Erick Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I second Kris's suggestion. I'm new to Lift and Scala, but know Java. If first started converting a Wicket application to Scala. It's pretty easy to write a Java applications using Scala, but you really don't learn anything about Scala real capabilities. So, after deciding to write my application in Lift instead, my brain explodes a little every coding day. Please send me your address and I'll send some Windex to clean up the brain bits. :-) My typical process is to try something in Lift, fail because I don't understand it, study the Lift source code a bit (which is actually pretty short in most cases), and match what I see to the Scala Book. Then I ask on this list and get an answer in a day if not minutes. I would have given up long ago if not for the mail list. I'm very glad to hear this. One of my top-level goals for Lift is to build a great community. I'm really glad that there are lots of people on the list who are helpful and responsive to newbies and JPA code sloggers alike. Something to give thanks for. -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Collaborative Task Management http://much4.us Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
