Hello everyone! I’ve been learning F# for a couple of months and I think that the language is Fantastic!
I have a programming experience in Java mostly (I never liked the language), but I feel like F# made me love programming again. I wish more people would be interested in F#.
My question is how F# community can put more effort in convincing universities/colleges/etc. to use as F# as a teaching language (first programming language or first functional programming language)?
I see that only a small number of colleges/universities use F# as a teaching language - Teaching F# | The F# Software Foundation
It’s ok to keep trying to convince existing Java/Python/C# developers to use F# (which is a very Difficult to do) or introduce some new “hot” language feature, but focusing on finding Early Adopters among Hundreds if not Thousands of college(or even high school) students can be a very Good strategy too.
I think the concept of functional programming is much easier to learn for the most of college(or even high school)students, because they’re familiar with a concept of “function”. I guess, that’s could be a good selling point for F#.
On contrary, OOP concepts like constructors, encapsulation, instances, etc. would be much harder to learn for novice.
I believe that some of university students/ graduates would like to use F# at work or contribute to the F# community.
And some of them would even start their own companies and would like to hire F# developers too.
So, it will definitely help the F# community 
Thank you!