>I'm not quite sure how well-suited functional programming is for middle-school-aged kids Functional programming works perfectly well with middle-school-aged k

>I'm not quite sure how well-suited functional programming is for middle-school-aged kids Functional programming works perfectly well with middle-school-aged kids. The only problem (imo) is that understanding (and hence using) recursive functions can be a barrier, but this doesn't even come up for a _long_ time (depending on your approach). That site you linked as [2] is pretty bare-bones; try https://htdp.org/ https://htdp.org/