Michael Chermside wrote:
> The idea of a standard edu library though is a GREAT one. That would
> provide a standard place for things like raw_input() (with a better
> name) as well as lots of other "helper functions" useful to beginners
> and/or students -- and all it would cost is a single line of boilerplate
> at the top of each program ("from beginnerlib import *" or something
> like that).
I disagree for two reasons:
1) Even a single line of boilerplate is too much
when you're trying to pare things down to the
bare minimum for a beginner.
2) It teaches a bad habit right from the
beginning (i.e. using 'import *'). This is the
wrong foot to start a beginner off on.
--
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+
University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! |
Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) |
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