NYC LOCAL: Thursday 9 May 2013 NYLUG: Paul Chiusano on Scala and functional programming

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An introduction to Scala and functional programming

Thursday, May 9, 2013

6:30 PM

Google Chelsea Market Office

75 Ninth Ave, Floor 2, New York, NY (map)

Enter the building at the "Chelsea Market"
entrance. Immediately to your right will be a stairs and
elevator. Take it to the 2nd floor.

Paul Chiusano
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An introduction to Scala and functional programming

Note: Registration will open on April 25, 2013 Thursday 6:30pm

Scala is a statically-typed, multi-paradigm language
targeting the Java Virtual Machine with good support for
functional programming (FP). FP is a radical approach to
programming in which programs are constructed without the
use of side effects like mutation. In this talk we'll
introduce Scala the language and demonstrate its features,
and we'll use Scala as a vehicle to introduce functional
programming and some of its basic techniques. This talk
will assume no prior knowledge of Scala or functional
programming. Experience with software development is
assumed.

Links:

Scala Project: http://www.scala-lang.org/

About Paul Chiusano:

Paul Chiusano is a senior software engineer at S&P Capital IQ
and has been using Scala professionally since 2008. He's also
a contributor to the open source library Scalaz and is
co-writing a book with Runar Bjarnason, Functional
Programming In Scala.

Stammtisch - After the meeting ... Join us around 9:00 PM or so
at McKenna's Pub at 250 West 14th Street for some additional
conversation and drinks.

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Distributed poC TINC:

Jay Sulzberger <secr...@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org