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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 16:11 +0000
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On 11/12/2013 16:01, bob gailer wrote:
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> One student (PhD in Physics) looked at X = X + 1 and said "no it doesn't".
>

Someone I worked with used x := x - x - x to invert a number.

-- 
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 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 16:11 +0000

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