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Re:Ask HN: How to explain functional programming to my 13-ye... by lumberjack on Thursday December 10, 2015 @12:14PM (#10711783)
Go to project Euler. Do problems 1 to 5 in Java or Python and then do them in Scheme.

The most important take away for the kid is that these are programming paradigms, i.e. different approach used to solve the same programming problem.

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