How to get started with functional programming? How to get started with programming? How to get started with anything? Just start doing it, do some research fo

How to get started with functional programming? How to get started with programming? How to get started with anything? Just start doing it, do some research for stuff you don't understand, and see if it flies for you. I'm not an elitist although I might very well come out as one but any article with a title analogous to what's above is by definition missing the target. My reasoning goes that anyone who's worth his salt and interested in functional programming has got, or will get, started with it without any such an article. Anyone who's either not worth his salt or not interested in it will not start functional programming or programming or anything because of some article (or a few of them). In general, of course.