@python.org] On
Behalf Of Michael_D_G
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:52 AM
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Python advocacy . HELP!
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
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Michael_D_G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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++
Michael_D_G wrote:
how do I refute
the notion that Python
is a marginal language because according to TOBIE it only less than
a 6% market share.
According to the same TIOBE, C++ has less than 11%. So it must be niche
then as well :)
--
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -- L.
I have looked at several interesting academic papers, on doing just
this approach. I have also looked through the
python web page to get examples of industry players using python in a
non-trivial way. Yes, I know, Google, Microsoft, Sun, CIA website
running on Plone, NOAA, NASA. If
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
Tim Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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,
