Python testimonial sought...
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
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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Thanks for the info Kirby and to Jeff for finding the link. Unfortunately, that was not it. (I did watch the entire video) What I am looking for was something written by a fourth-year University student about a final year project. André On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge@gmail.com> wrote: 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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Sorry for the false lead. I'll keep my antennae up. Jeff, thanks for posting that link, glad to know that video is still available. Kirby On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the info Kirby and to Jeff for finding the link. Unfortunately, that was not it. (I did watch the entire video) What I am looking for was something written by a fourth-year University student about a final year project.
André
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
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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