Dean Wampler
Principal Consultant, Think Big Analytics

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Dean Wampler is Principal Consultant at Think Big Analytics, specialists in “Big Data”, Machine Learning, and the Hadoop ecosystem. He speaks frequently at conferences on various topics, such as the effective use of different programming languages and modularity paradigms: functional, object-oriented, and aspect-oriented programming.

Dean is the co-author of Programming Hive (O’Reilly, 2012), the author of Functional Programming for Java Developers (O’Reilly, 2011) and the co-author of Programming Scala (O’Reilly, 2009).

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1:30pm Monday, 07/19/2010

The Seductions of Scala

Java
Location: D137/138

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Dean Wampler (Think Big Analytics)

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Scala is a hybrid object-functional language for the JVM. Java programmers can easily migrate to Scala as an improved Java, then learn to exploit its powerful support for Functional Programming. Developers from other languages can exploit the JVM's power and rich libraries using a state-of-the-art language. Come learn why Scala is seductive; why it meets the needs of the modern developer. Read more.

8:30am Tuesday, 07/20/2010

Why Scala?

Location: F 151

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Alex Payne (BankSimple), Dean Wampler (Think Big Analytics)

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(3.50, 2 ratings)

Welcome and introduction from the summit chairs Alex Payne and Dean Wampler, and an overview of what makes Scala unique and more productive to work with. Read more.

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Dean Wampler Principal Consultant, Think Big Analytics