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21. What to Expect

Toby Weston
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London, UK
 

The Learning Curve

If you’ve just started to learn Scala and are wondering what to expect, it’s typical to experience a quick ramp-up in skill followed by a slower adoption of the more sophisticated features. In this chapter, I talk about what I think of as a typical learning curve.
Based on my experiences and talking to various Scala teams, we can chart a typical Scala learning curve as shown in Figure 21-1, with experience (or time) on the x axis and some measure of “learning” on the y.
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Figure 21-1
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