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by buffyoda 3487 days ago
HaskellBook.com will teach you quite a number of them. :)

The Reddits for the different functional programming languages are a good place to hangout (and a frequent source of blogs and videos on these topics), and for FP in non-FP languages, there are good Github communities (e.g. http://github.com/fantasyland/, no association with FIOL).

I'd also humbly suggest that LambdaConf 2017 (May 25-27) is a great place to learn more about functional programming. There will be a special two-day LambdaConf workshop prior to the conference that introduces the basics of functional programming (no background knowledge), another that is aimed at a slightly more experience audience, and then at the subsequent conference, plenty of workshops and sessions to learn many of these topics (and others).

It's a journey, but everyone can get there if they have the interest. Most of the resources out there (blogs, videos, even e-books) are free, and the remainder are low-cost if you are already working in tech.

Good luck and please just let any of us lurker functional programmers know if you need a hand. :)

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Is there anywhere to preview some content from HaskellBook.com ? Its a little pricey for to just take a chance without seeing any same content. The TOC looks good but that's not much indication of writing style.
There's a sample excerpt containing a few chapters: http://haskellbook.com/assets/img/sample.pdf .
It is pricey, but it is also very good. The content is quite up-to-date (e.g. covers Foldable/Traversable, teaches the Functor-Applicative-Monad progression) and working through the exercises made a lot of things click that I didn't understand before.