Re: Python in education

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Python in education
Date	2015-04-15 22:46 -0400
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, BartC wrote:

> On 15/04/2015 23:56, Michael Black wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Hils wrote:
>> 
>>> Quite a few people still don't "get" Python. (I'm one of them.) However,
>>> it seems to be everywhere. A new essay and a free book from O'Reilly
>>> argue its case in education.
>>> 
>>> http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/five-reasons-why-python-is-a-popular-teaching-language.html
>>> 
>>> 
>> I thought it wsa just another interpreted language, with "hooks" that
>> allow it to interface with the scripting languages in Linux.
>> 
>> Since it comes with Linux, that seemed to be the primary reason to
>> pursue it rather than BASIC, but probably there are other details
>> later.  I've glanced at a book (finding a book about Python at a used
>> book sale for a couple of dollars made me curious), and without a
>> careful look, it doesn't seem that different from BASIC.
>
> If you think Python is similar to Basic, then look a bit more carefully!
>
Actually, I'm talking in terms of a beginner's language.  There didn't 
seem anything overly complicated there, it's not radically different like 
FORTH.  It's an interpreted language so you don't have to fuss with 
compiling (though with computers of today, that's no longer much of a fuss 
in terms of speed).

I played with it briefly, then decided I'd rather put my effort into 
relearning what I knew about C.  But I have that bias, I started by hand 
assembling 6502 code, and never really got excited about BASIC.

   Michael

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Python in education Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2015-04-15 18:49 +0100
  Re: Python in education Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-04-15 16:03 -0600
  Re: Python in education Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-04-15 18:56 -0400
    Re: Python in education BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-16 01:25 +0100
      Re: Python in education Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-04-15 22:46 -0400

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