teaching OO

[Gabriel Zachmann]

This post is not strictly Python-specific, still
I would like to learn other university teachers' opinion.

Currently, I'm teaching "introduction to OO programming" at the undergrad
level. My syllabus this semester consists of a bit of Python (as an example
of a scripting language) and C++ (as an example of a compiled language).
With C++, I go all the way up to meta-programming.

My question now is: do you think I should switch over to Python completely
(next time), and dump all the interesting issues involved in C++'s virtual
classes, overloading, and templates? (In Python, all of that would just
disappear ... ;-) )

(The opinion of the people on this NG might well be a little bit biased
towards Python, but that's ok ;-).)

Interested in all kinds of thoughts.

Best regards,
Gabriel.

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