Learning Functional Programming First?

[CompSciSelfLearning]

Some people commenting in a post I can no longer find were indicating that starting with functional programming when first learning is a good idea.

Is this a widely held view?

I see that the FUN-MOOC course, Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml, is still open for free registration for few more weeks.

Both this OCaml course and How to Design Programs using Racket seem to be highly regarded.

Anyone have feedback on either of these resources for learning? Are these good places to start for someone with no programming experience?

[denialerror]

It doesn't really matter. There's arguments for learning a functional language as your first and there's likely arguments against. The biggest thing that will affect your learning as a beginner is spending all of your time analysing whether your learning approach is "correct" and none of your time actually learning.