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Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming Review

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Review of Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming powered by the Slant community.

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What are the best resources to introduce programming students to Functional Programming?

Pros

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Covers a wider range of topics than many books

Pro
Free

It's available free on Github.

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Can submit pull requests to suggest improvements

You can submit issues to suggest improvements, or submit pull requests.
Thanks to it being open source, it's constantly being improved and updated.

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Uses JavaScript

JavaScript is popular, ubiquitous, and has the necessary power to teach core concepts.

Cons

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Shortage of real world examples

There are very few non-trivial examples given in the book.

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