Another resource for learning Scala is Werner Hett's 99 problems in Scala: http://aperiodic.net/phil/scala/s-99/. I tried it after doing Odersky's Scala class (https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun). If you've done the class, it's not a bad way to get some practice with constructs that weren't particularly useful in the class.

If you haven't done the class, the problems are simple enough that you could probably learn scala by just working through the problems and googling for relevant syntax. They start to get more involved around problem 50, but, by that point, you'll have a good grasp of the syntax.

If you want to try them out, I have unit tests for the problems I've done (only up to 58, so far) here: https://github.com/danluu/ninety-nine-scala-problems. The tests are pretty rudimentary; I'm sure there's at least one github repo that has more comprehensive tests, but I looked around at tens of repos of other people's tests on github when I first started and I didn't find much.

P.S. If you're in Austin, there's a Scala group that gets together that isn't a meetup, and hence, isn't findable from Graham's link in step 9: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/austin-scala-enthusi.... The majority of the folks there actually use Scala in real production code.