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When I first heard of Scala almost 10 years ago, I was immediately intrigued: a language that combines object-oriented programming (OOP) with functional programming (FP) sounded very interesting! And of course, at the time, I had no idea of what FP really meant or why I should care about it. When I decided to give this new language a try, I was lucky enough to work with great mentors who guided me in the learning process.
As I was learning new features of the language, I decided to start writing down my discoveries to further cement my understanding of them. After one or two months, I started writing my blog. My original motivation was to force myself to keep studying and improving my skills, but I soon realized that other people were finding my blog posts useful. In particular, readers of my blog enjoyed my writings because they were tackling practical problems that were explained with simple terms and that avoided unnecessary complexity.