<quote who="Terry Collins">
> For discussion - why teach Python?
http://python.org/sigs/edu-sig/
http://python.org/cp4e/
http://www.oreilly.com/frank/rossum_1099.html
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/cgi-bin/frames.pl/articles/conversations/005.html
http://python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html
Python was built to teach. It's clean and purdy. If you're endeavouring to
teach the concepts behind programming, there's no sense hiding them behind
the line noise and blurry lines of Perl, or the system level machine
language abstraction that is C.
[ Not that line noise, blurry lines and machine language abstraction don't
have their place. They most certainly do. ]
> C or C++ I can understand.
But will students? At least they'll keep coming back every year because they
have no idea how to apply concepts by themselves.
> I guess it all depends on your market and what they want.
s/market/students/ -> markets are what you sell bubbly health drinks,
flourescent blow up furniture and mobile phone ring melodies to.
- Jeff
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