Angular Seed::Example use of controllers

I'm not sure exactly what you want, but here is a more complex example.

Controller:

function MyCtrl1 ( $scope, $http ) {
  $http.get( '/some/location' ).success( function ( data ) {
    $scope.items = data;
  });
}
MyCtrl1.$inject = [ '$http' ];

View:

<div ng-controller="MyCtrl1">
  <ul>
    <li ng-repeat="item in items">{{item.name}}</li>
  </ul>
</div>

Commentary:

In a real world scenario, the $http calls would be in your own service that would be injected into the controller instead. Also, I recommend against defining controllers in the global space. A better way to define the same controller would be like this:

angular.module('myApp', [])
.controller( 'MyCtrl', [ '$http', function MyCtrl1 ( $scope, $http ) {
  $http.get( '/some/location' ).success( function ( data ) {
    $scope.items = data;
  });
}]);

Update:

Controllers are useless without a scope - the really couldn't do anything - so Angular automatically injects $scope into every controller. Every other service must be requested to be injected. The MyCtrl1.$inject and the array syntax are both only necessary to still remain functional after minification. If you create a sample file with my code and delete the $inject line, it will still work. But when you minify the Javascript, variables names get reduced, so we put the important information in strings.

I recommend going through the tutorial as well as watching some of the videos on the AngularJS YouTube channel, like this one.