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Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language
Date 2013-12-11 15:53 +0000
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On 11/12/2013 15:41, rusi wrote:
>
> When the ten becomes ten-thousand, written by a nut who's left you with
> code whose semantics is dependent on weird dependencies and combinatorial
> paths through the code you start wishing that
>

... he'd not been a Led Zeppelin fan, whereby every 
variable/module/function name was based on a song title/album 
name/lyric.  Thankfully not on my project, it was a mate's.  Code ended 
up in small, round filing cabinet.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 11:46 +0000
  Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 06:44 -0800
    Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 02:24 +1100
      Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 07:41 -0800
        Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 15:53 +0000
        Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 03:04 +1100
        Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 16:18 +0000
          Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-11 20:50 -0500
          Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.org.uk> - 2013-12-12 23:50 +0000
        Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 03:25 +1100
        Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 07:13 +1100

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