I went through the videos of a coursera class for Programming Languages with Dan Grossman. https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang https://www.coursera.org/cou

I went through the videos of a coursera class for Programming Languages with Dan Grossman. https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang He starts teaching programming with ML and then moves to Racket and ends with Ruby. I had tried to teach myself Haskell several times but it always fell flat. I ended up loving ML and Racket (Especially Racket) the 1ML does look very interesting. Racket is pretty amazing for me. I learned a ton and was able to really improve my code in Python and R.