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+++ title = "OsCon2010 Notes" date = 2010-07-19 in_search_index = true timeformat = "2006-01-02" [taxonomies] tags = [ "oscon", "notes", "scala", "blender", "tutorials", ] +++

Blender Tutorial:

• Speaker:
• enjoyed his enthusiam and the obvious mentoring from his father

Scala Tutorial:

• Speaker = "Dean Wampler"
• Really informative overview of Scala.
• Notes
  • Type inference
  • Concise
    • No boilerplate
    • User defined factory methods
  • Templated classes
  • Objects as Functions
    • And vice versa
  • Classes:
    • fields are private by default
    • var keyword generates getters and setters (uniform access principle)
    • case classes provide helpers for structural classes
  • Traits:
    • Interface + optional Implementation
    • Templatable
    • Construction time mixin of traits using with keyword
    • Traits in Scala are order dependent
  • object = singleton class
    • constructed at the definition
  • misc
    • Unit ~~ Void
  • Akka scala actor library