Corrections and comments from Joseph Ottinger 20 Nov 2015

[d6y]

From: Joseph Ottinger https://github.com/jottinger Source: https://gitter.im/underscoreio/scala?at=564f473654ba2ca242608dc5

A few other minor notes as I go through: chapter 1's hello world exercise didn't mention importing duration (very minor thing);

also, 1.3.7 generated a TON of output that I didn't expect (but which made perfect sense), and also didn't use Future where I expected it to (the second example)

however, I actually tried to go through the Slick hello world online, and failed dramatically - this has worked like a charm out of the box (from github and from the chapter tutorial itself), so that's very good. I understand a lot more than I did, already.

It would be nice to see how to generate the schema if it's not already present, though (just as a convenience for multiple runs)

wearing my editor hat for a moment (as editor for TheServerSide and Apress): section 2.3 says "Querys have access to the type of the Table used to create them, allowing us to directly reference the columns on the Table when we’re using combinators like map and filter." "Querys" has "Query" as code (since it's referring to a type) - but would be better written as "Query instances" to prevent pluralizing the class type.

[d6y]

Section 3.1 is really nice, BTW - but I'd prefer more verbose text. I personally far far far prefer fully runnable code to snippets that highlight specific features - the fully running code can have important parts pointed out easily enough

[jonoabroad]

• Imports refers to the particular database library, we could add something saying " there are other imports",
• 1.3.7 I don't think there is anything to do here,
• Schema generation is covered, I wonder if he skimmed the book.
• Section 3.1 - I think we have sample code, having snippets means you can see only what is needed. I understand his frustration, missing imports or a magic line of code is balls. I wonder if we link through to the correct location in the code?

[d6y]

I've patched in the missing imports. We're done here I think.