In a message of Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:27:28 MST, David MacQuigg writes: >At 10:00 AM 3/2/2009 -0800, michel paul wrote: > >>Before I discovered Python a couple of years ago I was experimenting wit >h a pseudo-code approach for expressing math concepts. I had this kind o >f stuff in mind: >> >>factorial(n): >> if n < 2 ---> 1 >> else ---> n*factorial(n-1) > >I like the feeling of action in --->, but I also like the self-explanator >y "return". Any other suggestions? Strong preferences? > >We could use a symbol other than = for assignment, just to avoid confusio >n with the comparison operator and to introduce the idea of variables as >labels, not containers. How about: > >a2 --> a**2 >a --> b --> c --> 0
Datapoint: the children I was teaching how to write games have all had terrible problems with arrows. Whenever I tried to use them to indicate anything there was this large mental thud. So my suspicion is that this will make things harder, rather than easier. In explaining things I found that words worked best. and the words that worked were: 'is bound to' Just my 2 kronor, Laura _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
