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Related: I love this book's teaching style, and found it very much resonated with me - starting from zero, step by step, iteratively learning and building on previous lessons.

Can anyone suggest something similar for learning Scala?

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The canonical source for learning Scala from scratch (at least, when I was learning a couple of years ago) is the Coursera course by Martin Odersky, one of the language's founders. It appears that the course has grown somewhat, but you can still find part 1 here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/progfun1

I took the course - unfortunately, and to be honest, it didn't have the approachability and "fun" of Zed's books. To me - it felt very dry, academic, and quickly became a chore to complete rather than a joy. I need the version aimed for "C- python programmer" / newbie rather than "eager CS student" or "experienced Java dev".

  >> Coursera course by Martin Odersky

Brilliant course.

Unfortunately, the next one in the series is not nearly as good.

The books I've looked at have tended to be too dry so I learned on my own, but there are some good conference talks out there.

https://www.findlectures.com/?p=1&class1=Technology&category...

I found Scala for Data Science by Pascal Bugnion to be great when I was learning Scala.

Granted, this was for a Big Data class at the university level that was covering Spark and Scala mostly. However, I remember the book to be very clear and digestible.

Atomic Scala is what I hear recommended for starting from scratch - I can't truly speak for it myself as I knew Scala before it came out, but I liked what I saw of it.

Thanks - will check that out.

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