>Also, down the road, I can see a CS curriculum which is pretty .NET centric,
To me, the spirit of Python and .Net are quite unaligned. It seems that many of us who feel aligned with Python feel aligned with it in spirit, more than in anything in particular in its syntax and semantics. If we insist that broader questions (at least loosely) related to academic ethics are irrelevant, some of us win and some of us lose. Are we training programmers for industry, or mentoring hackers to hack - why, where, when being their business? I don't think it unreasonable to try to keep alive the notion that at least certain kinds of academic institutions would and should remain a degree removed from idea of training, and a degree committed to the idea of stimulating the development of more abstract skills by way of a less goal oriented exploration. So it is no small thing for me to hear that an insitution like Swathmore has moved from Scheme to Java. Which is a move - in my mind - exactly in the wrong direction. Ted Leung blog entry of this morning being highly relevant, I thnk http://www.sauria.com/blog/ It is also no small thing to me to feel inhibited from mentioning Ted's entry and hoping to stimulate some discussion of it here - though finding no direct mention of Python in it. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
