Total beginner to programming & Scala, what would you suggest to get them started?

[jvican]

@MarkCLewis

This doesn’t sound like much until you consider a situation where you are trying to maximize what students can do while minimizing the number of language constructs that have been presented. Now I have an extra language construct that I have to talk about in order to do basic input.

If you’re trying to minimize the number of language constructs presented to your students, have you considered writing a package object with aliases and some “extensions” so that your students only have to do one import?