Tips on Scala

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• Scala Root Package
• Scala Documentation
• Scala Tutorial
• Scala Coding Style
• Scala Glossary
• Scala Cheatsheet
• Scala Style Guide

Trick & Traps

• Scala and 22

General Tips

1. IntelliJ IDEA is the recommended IDE. Eclipse (with the Scala IDE plugin) is alternative.

Style

1. avoid using break, continue, return even though you can use them in Scala

2. avoid using while loop but don't go too crazy

scala.util.Random

It is a wrapper of java.util.Random which is NOT a high quality random number generator.

Argument Parsing

Scala Args Parsing

https://github.com/scopt/scopt

Links

http://blog.plasmaconduit.com/reduve-vs-fold-in-scala/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9727637/new-keyword-in-scala

Collections

http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections/overview.html

http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections/performance-characteristics.html

http://alvinalexander.com/scala/understanding-scala-collections-hierarchy-cookbook

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19478244/how-does-a-case-anonymous-function-really-work-in-scala