Hi Andre -- My clearest memory along those lines was it was a "talking head" maybe Jeff Elkner himself in that student-made video about the virtues of Python. You may recall the video: there's an "old hippie" dad, a parody of a student's father. It's a kind of love story, where this girl show this boy how easy it is to learn this language. I actually thought it was kinda sweet and regret that it's no longer out there (or maybe it is). My recollection is way have several cutaway shots to teacher / experts who share their enthusiasm for this new language and it was in one of those interviews that the point is made that in C/C++ you just never get to tackle the kinds of projects Python allows because you're still mired in the details of setting up a memory file for graphics or whatever the low-level hell. Kirby On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge@gmail.com> wrote:
A few years ago (at least 5 I believe) I remember reading an account from two students who had to do a term project in their final CS year. They decided to do it in Python (which they had learned on their own) whereas everyone else was using something like C++ or Java which was taught in their department. From what I remember, they completed the required work in something like 4 weeks whereas no other student team managed to do it while working for the entire term.
Does anyone remember this and, more crucially, would have a link to the original story?
André
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