Lessons

Basics

Values, functions, classes, methods, inheritance, try-catch-finally. Expression-oriented programming

Basics continued

Case classes, objects, packages, apply, update, Functions are Objects (uniform access principle), pattern matching.

Collections

Lists, Maps, functional combinators (map, foreach, filter, zip, folds)

Pattern matching & functional composition

More functions! PartialFunctions, more Pattern Matching

Type & polymorphism basics

Basic Types and type polymorphism, type inference, variance, bounds, quantification

Advanced types

Advanced Types, view bounds, higher-kinded types, recursive types, structural types

Simple Build Tool

All about SBT, the standard Scala build tool

More collections

Tour of the Scala Collections library

Testing with specs

Write tests with Specs, a BDD testing framework for Scala

Concurrency in Scala

Runnable, callable, threads, Futures, Twitter Futures

Java + Scala

Java interop: Using Scala from Java

An introduction to Finagle

Finagle primitives: Future, Service, Filter, Builder

Searchbird

Building a distributed search engine using Finagle