Well, sure. But reading the GoF book as your introduction to programming wouldn't exactly be all that useful. Once you've actually experienced some programming

Well, sure. But reading the GoF book as your introduction to programming wouldn't exactly be all that useful. Once you've actually experienced some programming and seen the patterns live and breathe it becomes a much more useful book. Likewise, if you've never actually worked with monads the high level explanations aren't terribly useful.