I found Martin Odersky's Scala course on Coursera to be a great intro, and my background at that time was similar to yours. Scala itself isn't that great for le

I found Martin Odersky's Scala course on Coursera to be a great intro, and my background at that time was similar to yours. Scala itself isn't that great for learning FP since it's entirely possible to write in a Java-like style. However the Coursera class uses a functional style and the autograder ensures you do too.