Scala for the Intrigued

This is a very nice series of posts about Scala by Venkat Subramaniam

1. The Elegance of Scala
2. Sensible Typing and Optional Items
3. Cute Classes and Pure OO
4. Functional Style of Programming
5. Working with Collections
6. Creating Higher Order Functions
7. Pattern Matching
8. XML as First Class Citizen
9. Recursions and Tail Call Optimization
10. Using Traits
11. Chaining Traits
12. Concurrency in Scala