2008/12/4 Michael_D_G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am a faculty member of a cs department. We currently teach C++ in > our intro to programming course. I am teaching this class and it seems > to me that we would be much better served teaching python in the intro > course, C++ for Data structures, as we do now, and Java in object > oriented programming, as we do now. > Some of my colleagues agree with me but some still see python as a > niche language and don't understand > how we could teach anything beyond C, C++ or Java.
Try asking "Are we teaching computer science, so that the students will be able to cope with whatever they meet once they graduate, or are we teaching computer programming, in a couple of specific languages, so that the students will be completely unprepared if they meet anything else?" -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
