[justwrote]

So, twitter has a nice tutorial called Scala School (http://twitter.github.com/scala_school) and of course the official site (http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/) has also some tutorials for programmers coming from other languages.

So what's the best IDE? If you're an eclipse user, it's Scala IDE (http://scala-ide.org/). You can find a full download eclipse + Scala IDE plugins on the typesafe homepage (http://typesafe.com/stack/scala_ide_download). If you're an IntelliJ user like myself you just need to install the Scala plugin.

Both IDE's have there drawbacks, none is perfect. I guess the easiest way to start is using the Scala IDE.

To test your new Scala skills you may want to solve some puzzles (http://scalapuzzles.org).

Have fun!