Resources for learning Monads, Functors, Monoids, Arrows etc

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Published on 2010-03-07T09:07:02Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 22:51 UTC
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Can you people please suggest some good books / weblinks from where I can get to learn about above mentioned concepts?

(Please note that I am a Java programmer and have NO prior experience with functional programming. I have been studying Scala since last one month and would appreciate the resources that try to teach the above mentioned concepts with Scala. (or even Java, if posible))

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