Creative Scala

Creative Scala's goal is to make Scala fun. We do this by creating training material that introduces Scala through non-traditional means, and libraries that unleash digital creativity.

Community

Join our Discord to chat, or our kindred project ScalaBridge London to learn.

Learning

Creative Scala: Form and Function is an introduction to programming and Scala, aimed at students without a STEM background. The second edition is currently in development.

We also have several extended case studies that expand on and go further than the material in Creative Scala:

• Cats Effect Tutorial
• FS2 Tutorial
• Machine learning by gradient descent
• Parser combinators

The first edition of Creative Scala is still available in PDF, HTML, and EPUB formats.

Code

• Doodle is a library for compositional two dimensional vector graphics. It has applications for data visualization and creative coding.
• Chartreuse is a library for compositional data visualization, building on Doodle.
• Terminus is a library for building terminal applications. It supports the JVM, Javascript, and Scala Native.
• Doodle Explore adds interactive visualizations to Doodle.
• Gooey makes creating user interfaces simple.
• See Github for all our repositories.

Made with 💖 by Noel Welsh