[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > On Oct 29, 10:39 pm, sandipm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>seeing posts from students on group. I am curious to know, Do they >>teach python in academic courses in universities? >> >>in undergrad comp science courses, We had scheme language as scheme >>is neat and beautiful language to learn programming. We learnt other >>languages ourselve with basics set right by scheme.. >> >>sandip > > > They didn't at either of the colleges I went to. They seemed to be > focused on C++, COBOL and Visual Basic. All are used all over the > place, but only Visual Basic is easy for complete newbs.
And alas one of the worst languages for a beginner - because you'll probably need years to unlearn it. > I hope more > colleges adopt Python or Ruby as a teaching language, but I don't > think it's a good idea to ignore COBOL or C++ since their used so > extensively in big business. being widely used doesn't imply being a good language for teaching CS (nor even being a good language for anything). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list