Thanks for the early Christmas present! I've been wanting to check out a subscription, being able to see the current content will push me over the edge.
I believe that CS courses should include more real world practices and situations. After interviewing hundreds of cs grads over the past decade it only re-enforces that belief.
Scala is awesome, when combined with AKKA it's even better. We're much more efficient then we ever were in Java. Also, ops doesn't know it's not java since they can use all the same jvm tools.
val myList = "Jim" :: "Bob" :: Nil
myList(println)
Hunch is like my divorced neighbor who couldn't work it out, so now they're giving up and short selling the house and bringing down the values for everyone.