I read through Scala for the Impatient when I was initially learning Scala a few years ago. It's relatively new and written for version 2.10. Scala is on 2.11,

I read through Scala for the Impatient when I was initially learning Scala a few years ago. It's relatively new and written for version 2.10. Scala is on 2.11, but compared to 2.09 → 2.10, the changes are minimal. The book itself cuts out a lot of the BS and gets down to what a user wants to know about the language (features, syntax, how it differs from Java, etc). Most Scala books were written pre 2.10, which makes them outdated enough that it would be hard for many new adopters of the language to get much out of them. First 1/3 of the book is free online. The entire book is only $20 or so on Amazon. http://www.horstmann.com/scala/index.html http://www.horstmann.com/scala/index.html