Learning Resources

This page lista a number of resources that are helpful to learn about RACE related languages and tools

Scala

"Scala for the Impatient" by Cay Horstmann, free online chapters available here

"Scala Cookbook" by Alvin Alexander free online version here

"Programming Scala" by Dean Wampler and Alex Payne

A Scala Tutorial for Java programmers

"Functional Programming in Scala" by Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason

Actors and Akka

"Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems" by Carl Hewitt

Typesafe documentation

latest online Scala version

"Akka in Action" by Raymond Roestenburg, Rob Bakker, and Rob Williams

"Effective Akka", Jamie Allen

"Reactive Design Patterns" by Roland Kuhn and Jamie Allen

SBT

online tutorial

reference manual

"SBT in Action" by Joshua Suereth and Matthew Farwell

Interactive Scala, Akka and SBT Learning Environment and Examples

Typesafe Activator (an "IDE in a browser" with example projects including descriptions/tutorials)

Git

"Pro Git" by by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub online version available here