> I have in recent years taught Python, Scheme (DrScheme), ML (SML), > SmallTalk (Squeak), and Prolog (SWI) to college seniors in a > Programming Languages course. Without any scientific "evidence", I can > only tell you that they *loved* Python and tolerated the rest. But of > course, how this would apply to a less sophisticated audience I cannot > say.
In support of this, I've taught Python and Java to hundreds of students in the last few years, and most really like Python. There are definitely some who prefer Java, in part because the development tools are better (e.g. Eclipse) and the community is bigger. Toby -- Dr. Toby Donaldson School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University (Surrey) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
