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I am currently taking EdX's Intro to Functional Programming mooc, taught by Erik Meijer (with his crazy shirts), which uses Haskell to teach functional programming concepts.

I am wondering if there are any other good resources for teaching the functional programming paradigms. Anybody care to recommend me some resources?

Also, I mainly work with Ruby and Javascript in my full time job. Currently, in school, I use Java (in the context of Android, which is on Java 6) and Objective-C (iOS programming). If anybody has any resources regarding functional programming and the previously mentioned languages, it would be most appreciated.

Thanks people!

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Read "Functional JavaScript" and "JavaScript Allonge" books from this list http://bahmutov.calepin.co/javascript-books.html

Also, I have been blogging a lot about functional programming in javascript with practical code examples http://bahmutov.calepin.co/tag/functional.html

In particular how to go from imperative style to functional to reactive in JavaScript http://bahmutov.calepin.co/journey-from-procedural-to-reacti...

This reply is a little late, but there is a series on the (non-free-but-worth-it-for-one month) "Frontend Masters" site. It is called Hardcore Functional Programming (or similar) and goes into Monads, Functors in normal JavaScript.

https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge is a good resource on (rather basic) functional programming in JavaScript.

How are you finding the mooc? Can you recommend it?

I'm not the OP, but I am also currently taking the FP101X Mooc with Erik Meijer. So far, I'm enjoying it tremendously. I've signed up for several moocs the past couple years, but have never been able to stick with any. This is the furthest I've been able to actually stay with it, which is probably indicative of something.

The lectures are basically laid out 1:1 with Hutton's Programming in Haskell book, so if you're familiar with that book, you're familiar with the way the course is structured. I find the actual experience of doing all the homework questions very helpful, even if so far nothing has been particularly difficult.

I'm also taking it to help flesh out my Haskell learning. I rather like it.

Be aware it starts out really slow then 50% in ratchets up the fun into "scare away the freshman" territory with monads. I have to say preexisting knowledge has been quite helpful.

About my only complaint is the amount of "which of these 9 implementations are valid" exercises. Although i've been cheating and using hspec to tdd my way through them.

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