Hello Nicholas, Thanku for great book. :) Cheers, Harsh Dattani On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 1:34 AM Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll@ntoll.org> wrote:
On 27/10/15 20:02, Ned Batchelder wrote:
A friend at a CS department is advocating to switch to Python as the teaching language rather than Java. Some of his peers would like some evidence (research?) that Python is better-suited as a first language. Anyone have links to such a thing?
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Not wishing to blow my own trumpet here... but I wrote "Python in Education" (a free download from O'Reilly) for precisely a moment like this!
http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/python-in-education.csp
It's not research, more a manifesto. It's not very long and shouldn't take much more than 30 minutes to read cover-to-cover.
Happy to answer questions.
N.
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