Is it important to learn classes, oop etc before learning discord.py to develop bots

Question

I currently know the fundamentals of python, and I was thinking whether or not to start developing a discord bot.

Answer 1

You can if you want, OOP is more of a structure to the code.
functional programming can do the same as OOP just with more or less code depending on the situation.
functional: create all functions and then feed them to a bot's main loop.
oop: create a bot object, with methods and attributes so the bot functions