RE: Learning some programming fundamentals
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I have been a professional programmer for several decades working in various languages.
And it is only now that you are "studying the principles of programming in general"? ;-)
Me too, I have been a professional software developer for 2 decades (now fully retired), mostly in Ada.
I had learned about ML (a functional programming language) and of course about Ruby, though I did not practice any of these two languages.
But I had never learned about Racket, which is not too surprising as it is a pedagogic language that has started to be designed 25 years ago.
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Well I have some background in the principles, but this took it a bit further. A lot of programming is just joining library calls together, but I find the really fun part is coding up an algorithm, trying to make it efficient and elegant. I may go back to some programming challenges I did before for things like finding prime numbers. You could do those in ML.
I enjoy learning new things and want to experience more types of programming, even if it is just for fun.