A recent paper entitled "An objective comparison of languages for teaching introductory programming" - by Linda Manilla and Michael de Raadt - praises Python as a beginner's language:
http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/upcerg/Publications/proceedingsKoliCalling2006/research2.pdf A comparison is outlined in Section 3, Table 2 in the above paper. The volume that contains the paper was just announced on the ACM-SIGSE list. It can be found here: http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/upcerg/Publications/proceedingsKoliCalling2006 Atanas -- Atanas Radenski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://studypack.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www1.chapman.edu/~radenski _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
