Do you really want to understand monads? Here is how to do that in 2 steps. 1) Go to https://www.haskell.org/ https://www.haskell.org/ and install haskell for

Do you really want to understand monads? Here is how to do that in 2 steps. 1) Go to https://www.haskell.org/ https://www.haskell.org/ and install haskell for your platform 2) Go to http://learnyouahaskell.com/ http://learnyouahaskell.com/ and work through the book. I guarantee that by the time you finish going through it, you will have a good understanding of Monads. Trying to understand monads when you have only worked with imperative languages is like trying to understand heterosexual sex without ever having seen a member of the opposite sex.