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Daniel Westheide
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Daniel Westheide's personal blog at danielwestheide.com covers programming and career. Since 2013, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “The Neophyte's Guide to Scala”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel Westheide's blog, especially 'The Neophyte's Guide to Scala' series, as a Scala learning resource. Commenters value it as a starting point and as a complement to courses and books.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Neophyte's Guide to Scala7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-08-19
- The Empathic Programmer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-02-02
- The Complexity Trap: Think Before You Leap2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-07
- The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 1: Extractors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-25
What Hacker News says?
In no particular order: - If you're at least a little familiar with Java, Scala for the Impatient is pretty good, though a little dated (I think the last edition covers Scala 2.12). - Daniel Westheide's blog: https://danielwestheide.com/books/the-neophytes-guide-to-sca... - https://www.scala-exercises.org (at least the part on the standard library). - https://www.handsonscala.com Note: Scala 3 introduces quite a bit…
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on “Scala 3.0”Submitted The Complexity Trap: Think Before You Leap as a story · 120 points
HN discussionTo anyone doing the course or interested in Scala, 2 recommendations: * the blog of Daniel Westheide ( http://danielwestheide.com/ ) has a series of posts (starting at http://danielwestheide.com/blog/2012/11/21/the-neophytes-gui... and currently at lesson 15) which may be worth reading to complement/expand on the course lectures. Probably not useful for the course itself until you’ve finished week 2 or 3, but releva…
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on “‘Functional Programming Principles in Scala’ starts today”Submitted The Neophyte's Guide to Scala as a story · 103 points
HN discussionI am learning Scala last couple of months. Twitter scala page is really nice for starting up. Another place with discussion of more advanced topics I find useful: http://danielwestheide.com/scala/neophytes.html
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on “Scala School”Submitted The Empathic Programmer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI started with Scala a year ago for work. I used a mixture of the resources listed here, but I found this [1] series the most valuable, after the other resources gave a basic foundation. [1]: http://danielwestheide.com/scala/neophytes.html
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on “Ask HN: What are the best resources to properly learn Scala?”Submitted The Neophyte's Guide to Scala: Welcome to the Future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs you are asking for books - Scala for the impatient ( http://www.horstmann.com/scala/ ) - Programming in Scala ( https://booksites.artima.com/programming_in_scala_3ed ) I found those books very good resources. The Scala website lists a few others ( https://www.scala-lang.org/documentation/books.html ) Aprt from that I found Daniel Westheides blog a very good starting point ( http://danielwestheide.com/scala/neophy…
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on “Ask HN: What are the best resources to properly learn Scala?”Submitted The Neophyte's Guide to Scala Part 13: Path-Dependent Types as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI second "Scala for the Impatient", but if you don't have any statically typed background it might be a bit tough. "The Neophyte's Guide to Scala" ( http://danielwestheide.com/scala/neophytes.html ) is hands down the best language introduction I've ever read though.
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on “Scala – The good, the bad and the very ugly”Submitted The Complexity Trap: Think Before You Leap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAgreed. I'm using IntelliJ Community Edition with Scala plugin. It works really well. Only settings I've changed were setting the font to Source Code Pro and turning off spell checking. I'm absolutely loving Scala right now. I was writing a lot of stuff in Go until I started a new project that needed to leverage some Java libs. I had been wanting to try Scala, so I went with it instead of Java (or Clojure, etc). I l…
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on “Ask HN: Java 8 or Scala?”Submitted The Empathic Programmer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Empathic Programmer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing Nice – Designing and Implementing Well-Behaved Web APIs (slides) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Neophyte's Guide to Scala as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Empathic Programmer – Daniel Westheide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala Part 1: Extractors as a story · 1 points
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