This page is for collecting links to blog articles and the like which provide introductory material for Scala.

There’s a much larger and more general list of articles on the Scala site.

Scalazine at Artima, by Bill Venners, Martin Odersky, and Lex Spoon:

• First Steps to Scala: In this article, you’ll follow twelve steps that are designed to help you understand and gain some basic skills in the Scala programming language.

A gentle introduction by Alex Blewitt:

• The interpreter
• Functions
• Dealing with objects

λ Tony’s blog λ

• The Power of Type-classes with Scala implicit defs
• Type-safe Scala Sequence Comprehensions

James Iry’s blog:

• The Kingdom of Nerbs: Discusses the relationship between objects and functions.
• Martians vs Monads: Null Considered Harmful: Compares Java’s null with Scala’s Option type.
• Monads are Elephants (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3): An introduction to monads in Scala.