It's the same for me. I don't know Haskell yet but it reminds me the hard time I had with mathematics in school. It all changed when I started self-studying by

It's the same for me. I don't know Haskell yet but it reminds me the hard time I had with mathematics in school. It all changed when I started self-studying by first doing learning to do exercises and memorizing properties, and then learning the theory afterwards. For example I really enjoyed the first Andrew Ng machine learning course on Coursera, where you learn to do matrix calculations and backpropagation by hand for practical applications without much theory. It was great for building the intuition first.