A collection of materials to learn Scala

###Who is using Scala

Scala in the Enterprise

What startups or tech companies are using Scala?

Who's using Scala?

###Why

Why we love Scala at Coursera

How and Why Twitter Uses Scala

###Start

Download the latest Scala version.

Use a text editor such as Sublime Text, Vim or Emacs

If you want to write a large scala project, you may need some tools such as SBT, the Scala IDE, IntelliK IDEA with the Scala plugin or NetBeans IDE with the scala plugin.

###MOOC

Functional Programming Principles in Scala taught by Martin Odersky. A very good course covers scala basic, functions, recursion, immutable objects, inheritance, types & pattern matching, lists, collections & combinatorial search and lazy evaluation.

Principles of Reactive Programming taught by Martin Odersky, Erik Meijer and Roland Kuhn. A following course covers functional programming & mutable state, futures & monad, reactive stream processing, actors, supervision and conversiona patterns.