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Yawar Amin

The MOOC that I talk about at every opportunity is Programming Languages, Part A. It teaches, in a structured approach, the basics of strong statically-typed functional programming, using a venerable academic language called SML. The thing about SML is that it's been influential in different ways on most of the popular FP languages we have today, like OCaml, Scala, Haskell, Rust. And the instructor's (Prof. Dan Grossman) approach is to build knowledge using small, structured lessons. I highly recommend it.