Thus suggesting our motto: Scala/Lift: Our heads are in the stars, but our feet are firmly planted in the, er, "soil."
Chas. David Pollak wrote: > And of course Beginning Scala is BS :-) > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Meredith Gregory > <lgreg.mered...@gmail.com <mailto:lgreg.mered...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Jorge, > > i was going to express a similar sentiment. There are lots of > available options. > > * PinS > * PrinS > * PrinSc > > Best wishes, > > --greg > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jorge Ortiz <jorge.or...@gmail.com > <mailto:jorge.or...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Aside: I think the preferred abbreviation for Programming in > Scala is PinS, not PiS. > > Just fyi, > > --j > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Timothy Perrett > <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: > > > > My advice, if your generally / vaugly familiar with Scala > from reading PiS > (that truly is a very unfortunate acronym!) just dive into > making a lift > app, then go from there. > > One of the best things about Lift is the community - if you > have questions, > chances are its either already in the group archive from one > of our many > debates, or in the lift book, or if not, just ask on the > mailing list and > someone will no doubt help you right quick! > > Good luck! > > Tim > > > On 03/04/2009 23:01, "Charles F. Munat" <c...@munat.com > <mailto:c...@munat.com>> wrote: > > > > > I'd suggest that you start working in Lift, then when you > encounter > > something that doesn't make sense to you, refer to the > PiS book > > (unfortunate acronym). It helps if you have the PDF > version because you > > can search. The index is OK, but often insufficient. > > > > This is the approach I used to get started, though > eventually I went > > back and read most of the book sequentially (I still have > a couple of > > chapters to go). Take a look also at DPP's book and the > online Lift > > book, both easily searchable. > > > > If you want to jump ahead in the book, I'd recommend the > following: > > > > 15: Case Classes and Pattern Matching > > 16: Working with Lists > > 23: For Expressions Revisited > > > > Lists, for expressions, case classes, and pattern > matching are used *all > > over the place* in Lift. You can't be too familiar with > these. > > > > Then maybe: > > > > 19: Type Parameterization > > 21: Implicit Conversions and Parameters > > > > You don't need to understand those thoroughly, but having > some > > familiarity with them will help with debugging and > understanding what > > the heck is going on. > > > > If you have time, you could also read the following to > fill in a few gaps: > > > > 22: Implementing Lists > > 26: Working with XML > > > > And if you're going to use Comet, you should probably read: > > > > 30: Actors and Concurrency > > > > But again, you can dive in and then reference these > chapters as necessary. > > > > Chas. > > > > lmorroni wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I am a Java programmer that is interested in learning > Lift. I have > >> just finished the first six chapters of Programming in > Scala. I > >> wonder what people's opinions are on how much of this > book I need to > >> read before diving into Lift. I attempted to dive into > Lift without > >> reading anything on Scala and that worked great until I > wanted to > >> start reviewing the Lift libraries :) > >> Maybe there are some chapters in this book that I can > skip? I think > >> the book is really well written and I have followed > everything so > >> far. I just would rather get rolling on Lift sooner > rather than > >> later. > >> Larry > >> > >>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > L.G. Meredith > Managing Partner > Biosimilarity LLC > 1219 83rd St NW > Seattle, WA 98117 > > +1 206.650.3740 > > http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com > > > > > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some: http://github.com/dpp > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
