> Odersky's coursera course is a great introduction. Honestly that course completely put me off the language. The questions didn't match what he just told you

> Odersky's coursera course is a great introduction. Honestly that course completely put me off the language. The questions didn't match what he just told you and it was very difficult to figure out what to do. I gave up half way through and bought a Spark book to try to learn it, I might buy this one too.