Not outdated at all, because there are other methods having dependencies on sparkcontext so you have to create it. For example, https://gist.github.com/chetkhatri/f75c2b743e6cb2d7066188687448c5a1
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Wojciech Indyk <wojciechin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > In this doc http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/programming-guide.html# > initializing-spark initialization is described by SparkContext. Do you > think is it reasonable to change it to SparkSession or just mentioned it at > the end? I can prepare it and make PR for this, but want to know your > opinion at first. The same for quickstart: http://spark. > apache.org/docs/latest/quick-start.html#self-contained-applications > > -- > Kind regards/ Pozdrawiam, > Wojciech Indyk >