[tikhonj]

Yeah, StackOverflow is an incredible way to learn things. It's basically how I went from knowing nothing about functional programming to being obsessed with Haskell and category theory. In a pretty short time, at that.

I now want to try teaching people more directly, but it's somewhat difficult. My university is unfortunately really biased against functional programming (much less the interesting theory stuff). There are some cool meetups around, and I'll probably give some talks there in the near future--after summer--but it would have been cool to TA a class to. One day.

This is also why I think that having a good culture of education, both on the learning side but also on the teaching side--is so important for a company. That's one of the main things I'm looking for now when I consider where I would like to work.

[simonsarris]

I think it would be a really cool idea if you asked different CS professors if you could make a guest presentation one class to talk about functional programming languages. Some of them would probably be thrilled with the idea.

[saraid216]

DO actually prep and come up with enough material to fill the time slot, though. One of my professors asked me to sub in for him when he was busy but the material was fairly basic (intro to SQL) and I was an idiot and didn't even bother finding out what they had just read.

I know my SQL reasonably well, but I had no idea what to actually say when confronted with an entire 50 minutes of dead time.