May 31, 2014
8:18 a.m.
Chris Barker writes:
that way. Saying that their very first easy program is:
print("hello world")
is fine
I have had similar experience on a small scale. Also I've been teaching R recently. The students who know Python (Python 3, we don't have backward compatibility issues in our work) got the concept that all "real work" in R is done by functions, immediately. Those who don't, have trouble with the concept that "help" and "q" (for "quit") need parentheses to get them to work. Unfortunately R doesn't have Python's Easter Eggs, so they get a code dump rather than help when they type the bare names.