what to study next?

dear programmers:

would it be harmful or dumb to learn functional programming before any other paradigm, such as imperative, or object-oriented? i took one course in college intro c++ and want to move forward now, so i'm thinking either object-oriented and moving to data structures (berkeley cs dept available free on their site), or functional programming w scala (coursera) next.

thoughts?

>>17
I'm not sure. If you have decided to master C then the Java spec won't be that useful, so swap that with the C standard.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf

>>18
All good (however see below :)

>>19
The last book is available for free (legally) from Oracle and, because it is a reference book, the HTML format might be advantegous (if the PDF is not hyperlinked).

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/index.html