I think it is a bad idea to change the design of Python because some college professor teaching intro to programming very poorly might require inappropriate tooling.
On Sun, May 10, 2020, 8:39 PM Jonathan Goble <jcgob...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 8:08 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > >> Why would you use Word? LaTeX exists, and will export to PDF. Heck, the >> PDF export from Jupyter is quite good (by way of LaTeX). >> >> On Sun, May 10, 2020, 7:40 PM Jonathan Goble < >> Several of the questions required us to write Bash scripts or Python >> functions, and we were required to write all of that code, along with all >> of our other exam answers, several of which were essay questions, in >> Microsoft Word and then export the whole mess as a single PDF file to be >> uploaded. We were not allowed to submit multiple files, or zip files, or >> anything at all except one single PDF file containing all of our answers >> and code. >> > > This exam format was dropped on us with short notice before the midterm > and we didn't have time to set up and learn brand-new tooling. Also, this > was a freshman-level course, and I highly doubt more than a tiny fraction > of the class had even heard of LaTeX, much less knew how to use it (I've > definitely heard of it, but haven't the slightest clue how to use it > myself). And as the course was many students' first introduction to Python > (we only covered the bare basics of the language), Jupyter was again > something most students in the class had probably never heard of. > > The course's primary focus was on introducing students to the usage of the > command line interface and to the usage of Linux in general, and Python was > a one-week side note to that. Most of the course centered on Bash and on > general OS concepts (processes, virtual memory, etc.). >
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