Would you like to learn all about Scala, it's capabilities and uses? Watch this SkillsCast recording (film, code, slides) of a talk by Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala language, and learn how Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. Whatever your programming background this introduction will give you an exciting insight into Scala the language and its uses. In this talk, you will see how Scala smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling developers to be more productive while retaining full interoperability with Java and taking advantage of modern multicore hardware.

Here in London, the financial community has been fast to adopt Scala and how new start-ups like Mind Candy have turned to it to get fast time-to-market. Perhaps it’s time you found out why and consider what it can do for you!

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