Learning scala the fun way

Last week I had the privilege to start learning scala programming. Thank you my employer. It was only a one day sneak peek, but it was very informative – with mind challenging exercises. In the end, a link was given to Scalatron, which is a bot game where You code the intelligence of your bot. It seems somewhat similar that mikrobitti had years and years ago known as botwars (cannot really recall the actual name though) which was written in Java. Is there a better way to learn new programming language, than coding a game?

Must try it out, and learn more… need moar time…