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Ask HN: Good, enthusiastic intro to Scala?

3 points by phaedrus ↗ HN
I had been designing a hypothetical programming language in my head, and I was surprised to discover that Scala has a lot of the features that would have gone into that language. For instance, "call by name", and the "lazy" keyword.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good introduction/overview of Scala? I'm looking for something that is also entertaining to read, like a Scala version of "_why's Poignant Guide to Ruby" (I don't expect anything to be quite like that, but maybe closer to that side of the spectrum than the other).

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whakojacko
a book-free way to do it would be to start with reading an introduction such as: http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/roundup-scala-for-java-... (not really entertaining, but good content)

Once you are done with that, read articles on the fantastic Daily Scala blog: http://daily-scala.blogspot.com/ . There are LOTS of useful little morsels in there.

For a beginner asking questions, stackoverflow is IMO the place to go, the people on the mailing lists can sometimes be a bit hostile towards newbies.