Daniel Westheide has a series of posts introducing Scala to Neophytes.
As of today:
The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 1: Extractors
The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 2: Extracting Sequences
The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 3: Patterns Everywhere
The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 4: Pattern Matching Anonymous Functions
The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 5: The Option type
The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 6: Error handling with Try
The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 7: The Either type
The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 8: Welcome to the Future
The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 9: Promises and Futures in practice
The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 10: Staying DRY with higher-order functions
Apologies for not seeing this sooner.
Makes a nice starting place for the 25th March 2013 Functional Programming Principles in Scala class by Martin Odersky.
I first saw this at Chris Cundill’s This week in #Scala (26/01/2013).