Danyelle Gragsone wrote: > I wonder what schools offer python as a course.
It has been rather widely publicized of late that MIT this year switched all their incoming computer science and electrical engineering students to Python (from Lisp) as their introductory programming language. They use this well regarded $26.40 textbook: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Introduction-Computer-Science/dp/1887902996/ There is a computer science department at my university. They don't teach languages. Teaching languages is frowned upon in some computer science departments under the logic that if you belong in a computer science class, you'd better show up for class already knowing something as easy to grasp as an implementation language. Some computer science courses at my university have an implementation language used in the class. I've noticed both Python and Lisp used. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor