[mason55]

Another vote for doing it like this. I chose to learn Haskell by working through this book and they were a perfect match. One thing that really helped was trying to build things using a few different language constructs and seeing which ones worked well and which ones didn't. Really helped me independently arrive at a lot of concepts as I searched around trying to figure out how to make things work (a big one being an understanding of the kinds of ways you need to structure your code for a typesystem like Haskell vs. Java)