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?

If you want to learn computer science, read SICP and learn Lisp.

If you want to understand system programming and how computers actually work, learn C or assembly.

Wanna do OOP? Java, C#, and C++ are good options.

Just itching to get some shit out there fast? Python and Javascript will do that for you.