Douglas Muth on 20 Mar 2007 19:43:09 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Educational Languages

  • From: "Douglas Muth" <doug.muth@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Educational Languages
  • Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:43:04 -0400
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On 3/20/07, Matthew Singleton <msingle1@sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote: 
I would suggest Python.  My school has recently switched over to Python
for CS intro courses, and it has been very successful.


I'm not an educator, but I would also suggest Python for beginners.

The biggest thing I like about it is that if forces indentation in
blocks of code, which is a habit best learned early. :-)

I also like the fact that you can "dump" arrays and hash tables just
by printing them out.  That's not something that you'll ever find on a
production system, but is very helpful for the beginner who doesn't
fully understand how those data structures work.

-- Doug
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