Hello Atanas,
I agree with this post 100%. GUIs require a fairly good understanding
of event loops and OOP. They confuse beginners who have to look at the
code as well as the pictures. They are, however, a good example of
quality OO design, once the students have a little experience.
Thursday, Ju
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I know there've already been a couple responses on this. I've been
meaning to reply, but been preoccupied. But I found this post very
interesting, and am wondering if more discussion might be in order.
Bob Noonan wrote:
> Toby Donaldsoon writes:
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>>I've been involved with teaching CS1/CS2 s
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> The one place where Python is clearly deficient IMHO is in GUI
programming.
While this might be true, I do not feel it is a problem. The problem is
that GUI programming is given significant coverage in most mainstream
introductory CS textbook
. seems everyone.s overlooking your message's context
On 6/2/05, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but I'm looping - again.Still looping.But that's probably because it's hard for me to understand how I've come tolive on my own planet.For the largest majority of students - it seems clear to me - a
Kirby Urner wrote:
> Arthur:
>> For the largest majority of students - it seems clear to me - asking them
>> to learn to program, in Python or any other language for that matter,
>> would be the single *hardest* thing they have been asked to do in their
>> academic careers.
You (Arthur) should r
Arthur:
> For the largest majority of students - it seems clear to me - asking them
> to learn to program, in Python or any other language for that matter,
> would be the single *hardest* thing they have been asked to do in their
> academic careers.
Remember our little distinction between learni
> but I'm looping - again.
Still looping.
But that's probably because it's hard for me to understand how I've come to
live on my own planet.
For the largest majority of students - it seems clear to me - asking them to
learn to program, in Python or any other language for that matter, would be
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