Scala by example and the coursera courses by Martin Odersky have helped me, but like Li said, there is no substitute to having something in mind and getting you

Scala by example and the coursera courses by Martin Odersky have helped me, but like Li said, there is no substitute to having something in mind and getting your hands dirty using Akka, Play or Spark and Googling what you don't know. http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaByExample.pdf http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaByExample.pdf