Thanks for the info Kirby and to Jeff for finding the link. Unfortunately, that was not it. (I did watch the entire video) What I am looking for was something written by a fourth-year University student about a final year project.
André On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andre -- > > My clearest memory along those lines was it was a "talking head" maybe > Jeff Elkner himself in that student-made video about the virtues of > Python. > > You may recall the video: there's an "old hippie" dad, a parody of a > student's father. It's a kind of love story, where this girl show > this boy how easy it is to learn this language. I actually thought it > was kinda sweet and regret that it's no longer out there (or maybe it > is). > > My recollection is way have several cutaway shots to teacher / experts > who share their enthusiasm for this new language and it was in one of > those interviews that the point is made that in C/C++ you just never > get to tackle the kinds of projects Python allows because you're still > mired in the details of setting up a memory file for graphics or > whatever the low-level hell. > > Kirby > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > A few years ago (at least 5 I believe) I remember reading an account from > > two students who had to do a term project in their final CS year. They > > decided to do it in Python (which they had learned on their own) whereas > > everyone else was using something like C++ or Java which was taught in > their > > department. From what I remember, they completed the required work in > > something like 4 weeks whereas no other student team managed to do it > while > > working for the entire term. > > > > Does anyone remember this and, more crucially, would have a link to the > > original story? > > > > André > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Edu-sig mailing list > > Edu-sig@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > >
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