On Sep 7, 2006, at 8:27 PM, Arthur wrote: > Joshua Zucker wrote: > >> noticeable minus if in the early days of the course I had to talk >> about import, and dot notation, and so on ... to me it feels like >> being forced into a Java/OOPish mindset for how to structure a >> program, instead of being able to use functional programming or even >> just plain old C-like style. I think I'm only talking about maybe >> the >> first week of a course here, but still, that first week can do a lot >> to affect people's impressions of the language or even of programming >> as a whole. >> > Is it reasonable to expect Guido to design his 100 year language > around > a one week problem?
Is it reasonable to call it a one week problem if it happens three times a year for dozens of instructors and thousands of students? -- Paul Gries Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science University of Toronto _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
