# Functional programming learning path

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**Created:** [August 13, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/functional-programming-learning-path/15811 "2018-08-13T16:56:04Z")\
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1. What are you trying to achieve in learning functional programming ?
2. Will you be using Scheme, F#, OCaml, Haskell or Elixir/Erlang or another language ?

In some ways there are 3 levels of functional programming: recursions (and higher order functions), continuations and Functors/Monads. Continuations seem to have fallen out of favor in the recent years.

90% of the time knowing recursion and HOF is sufficient. In fact, most Erlang/Elixir code have minimal recursion instead relying on map/reduce/filter to perform most of the work. You do not need much to start functional programming in Elixir. A shameless plug [Functional Programming in Elixir](https://erlangcentral.org/wiki/Functionally_Programming_in_Elixir)

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