Introducing Vala Programming: A Language and Techniques to Boost Productivity - Softcover

Reseña del editor

Get an introduction into the Vala programming language and learn about its syntax, semantics, and idioms. Do you want to boost your productivity? Are you interested in a programming language that combines the efficiency of a scripting language with the performance of a compiled language? Did you always want to write GTK+ or GNOME programs, but hate C with a passion? Read this book and learn Vala!
Introducing Vala Programming starts from Hello World and goes up to graphical user interfaces using GTK+, covering DBus interprocess communication, network programming, Linux specifics, and more. You’ll learn how to leverage external libraries and enhance Vala by writing bindings to new libraries.

What You Will Learn

• Discover the Vala programming language and how to use it to boost your productivity
• Use Vala syntax and semantics
• Write object-oriented code with Vala
• Work with DBus
• Implement networking with Vala
• Integrate and use external libraries with bindings and libgusb

Biografía del autor

Dr. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer is a freelance software architect and author living in Neu-Isenburg, Germany. He is a free software enthusiast who enjoys solving problems with mobile and distributed systems. Learn more on his personal website.