Scala Tutorial – iteration, for expressions, yield, map, filter, count

Preface This is part 4 of tutorials for first-time programmers getting into Scala. Other posts are on this blog, and…

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Scala Tutorial – conditional execution with if-else blocks and matching

Preface This is part 3 of tutorials for first-time programmers getting into Scala. Other posts are on this blog, and…

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Scala Tutorial – Tuples, Lists, methods on Lists and Strings

Preface This is the second in a planned series of tutorials on programming in Scala for first-time programmers, with specific…

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Scala Tutorial – Scala REPL, expressions, variables, basic types, simple functions, saving and running programs, comments

Preface The is the first of several Scala tutorials I’m creating for my Fall 2011 graduate Introduction to Computational Linguistics…

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Fun with function composition in Scala

The goal of this post is to show how a list of functions can be composed to create a single…

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