Topics and features:

• Provides review questions and problem-solving exercises (with solutions) in each chapter, inspired by real-world applications
  
• Addresses each topic in a self-contained manner, highlighting how Scala can be evolved and grown according to the developer's needs
  
• Presents examples from a broad range of different application domains, including consumer electronics, online payment, retail, vehicle manufacturing, and healthcare
  
• Encourages an innovation-oriented mind-set, and the development of practical, saleable skills
  
• Draws from the author's extensive experience in industrial software development, academic research, and university teaching
  

This accessible and hands-on guide will embolden professional software engineers to make the switch to Scala. Instructors teaching introductory programming courses will also find this textbook popular among their students.

Bhim P. Upadhyaya  is a certified enterprise architect, application architect, software engineer, Java and JEE developer, and big data and Scala enthusiast. In addition to his professional experience as a software architect working for over 15 companies in the USA, he has more than half a decade of university teaching and research experience, including research work at the world's largest (non-profit) organization, the United Nations. He has also served as a visiting scholar at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) in the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia). He is the founder of EqualInformation, LLC (Sunnyvale, CA, USA), a company that focuses on data synthesis and visualization, web application design and development, enterprise architecture, and integration solutions. He is also affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley (Moffett Field, CA, USA).