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Re:Creative Scala: A New Introduction to Scala by benjaminjackman on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:24PM (#9108000)
Usually we have programmers take the Odersky coursera course. [1]

1: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

Re:Creative Scala: A New Introduction to Scala by jgrowl on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:42PM (#9108134)
I took this course about a year ago. It was my real exposure to a functional language. I had a lot of fun!