While this isn't how I learned programming in the first place, I found learning Haskell and Scheme at the same time as a freshman really helped me become a far

While this isn't how I learned programming in the first place, I found learning Haskell and Scheme at the same time as a freshman really helped me become a far better programmer. Moreover, the two languages made learning each other--and associated concepts--far easier, so I was certainly better off learning both at the same time than I would have been learning them in sequence.