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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…
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.
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.