I found a quick 15 page introduction to Scala and took me about an hour to digest it (of course I didn't dive in very deeply). It gave me a sufficient knowledge

I found a quick 15 page introduction to Scala and took me about an hour to digest it (of course I didn't dive in very deeply). It gave me a sufficient knowledge to understand the article about monads. So here it is: http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaTutorial.pdf http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaTutorial.pdf