[akka-user] how to learn AKKA?

[Jerry]

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Hello!

I am wondering what is the best way to learn AKKA? I am familiar with Java but not scala. Any good way to follow?

Thank you!

Regards.
---Jerry.

[Björn Antonsson]

On Friday, 27 April 2012 at 11:04, Jerry wrote:

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Hello!

I am wondering what is the best way to learn AKKA? I am familiar with Java but not scala. Any good way to follow?

So, I'm not sure if you want to learn to use akka, or hack on akka.

If you want to use akka, then you can use akka from Java.

Have you gone through the tutorial?

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.1/intro/getting-started-first-java.html

There are other samples in the documentation as well.

 

If you want to hack on akka, then I would suggest reading up on scala first.

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Thank you!

Regards.
---Jerry.

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[Jason Faber]

Hi Jerry,

In our experience, the best way to learn Akka is to actually learn Scala first. You can get some intro to Scala training done in only two days and then take what we call a "Fast Track to Akka with Scala" course, which is also two days. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks,

Jason

[Luis Medina]

You can use Akka with Java so you don't necessarily have to learn Scala. The best way to learn how to use it would probably be to start with reading the documentation: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.2/java.html. Each section/concept usually has a Typesafe sample project that you can run in their activator. You can learn more about that and browse the different template projects here: http://typesafe.com/activator

[Matthew Howard]

+1 for the activator... it's got lots of example apps each with great tutorials explaining the code (which you can see side-by-side in the browser) and makes it simple to tweak/execute right there to get a feel for things.

I'd start with a run through the docs to get up to speed with the concepts. Personally the docs made more sense the 2nd time I read them after I had played with some activator templates.

I find looking at the akka unit tests is also helpful.