About Simply Scala

Welcome to Simply Scala. I hope you have as much fun using Simply Scala as I did making it. I wanted to create an easy way for people to jump in and start learning scala. Lots of examples and immediate feedback on what works and what doesn't. I like to experiment with things to see how they tick.

The Simply Scala site server application is written entirely in Scala, even the HTML is generated using Scala's built in XML literals. The whole thing runs on the Google App Engine and it was surprisingly easy to get it all up and running. The client UI is written in an 'enhanced' Javascript.

I would like to thank Lex Spoon for his article which inspired me to try Scala on Google app engine in the first place. A big thanks to Toby Reyelts and James Robinson, who created LotREPLs, for publishing their source code for everyone to learn from. It was such a great help in getting the scala compiler running on the server. And also Martin, Bill, David, Daniel, Philipp, and the other people's examples and tutorials from which I have learned. I would also like to thank Yann Régis-Gianas for translating the tutorials into French.

If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to drop me a line at aj@simplyscala.com or leave a note in the comments area. If you have favorite Scala examples or tutorial text that you think other people would enjoy just pop them in the comments and I will integrate them, when I get a moment.