I'm delighted to announce the Beta Release of the Programming Scala book. The topics covered in the book are: Introduction Getting Started Getting up to speed in Scala excerpt Classes in Scala Sensible Typing excerpt Function Values and Closures Traits and Type Conversions excerpt Using Collections Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions Concurrent Programming Intermixing with Java Unit Testing With Scala Exception Handling Using Scala Web Resources The Beta release includes the first seven chapters. To download the excerpts from the book or for more information, please visit the book web page at The Pragmatic Programmers. I want to thank each and everyone who contributed into the making of this book, Dan Steinberg, in particular, for editing this book, and the Pragmatic Programmers for publishing it.