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I guess it's too late now, given that the advent calendar is completed, but for next year:

https://functional.christmas/rss.xml

In Norwegian we use the terms "Christmas calendar" and "Advent calendar" (translated directly) interchangeably. This i probably why some of the calendars (under the https://bekk.christmas umbrella) are using the term incorrectly

It might be that way where you work, but that's definitely not the case here.

In fact, I think what you suggest would be an extremely short-sighted "strategy" for a consultancy. Sure, you might get the next contract working this way. But once the customer could get rid of you they would, and they would never hire you again.

Better link, directly to the video(s): http://2014.javazone.no/videos.html

Yes, I'm the author. You'll find my contact info at the frontpage of the blog. Please, send my any feedback :)

The language is a simplified variant of Lisp. This is just a toy language, so a lot of things from a real Lisp will be missing, but I think there's enough to give you a sense of the core of the language. Actually, this version isn't too far off from the original Lisp written by John McCarthy over 55 years ago.

I don't really have a good answer as to how much experience is needed, but I do know I wish I had attempted it earlier.

My suggestion: Just try and see how it goes. If you find it too overwhelming, don't worry, you can always revisit the concepts later.

I didn't write the tutorial with novice programmers in mind, so I can't promise everything will be explained as you need. But still, if you do try, I'd love to hear your experiences.

Thanks!

It's definitely a journey! And I agree that trying to figure out how the concepts for yourself is by far the most rewarding. I hope this tutorial can help people realize that it's not difficult to get started, and inspire them to get started exploring on their own.

Nice! I've actually just started learning me some Haskell (for great good). Will definitely have a look at that wikibook.

Came to say the same. A call to flake8 is a very useful step in most of my Git pre-committ hooks.