27 Feb
2021
27 Feb
'21
4:29 a.m.
I think his point is that most of his students (economics or business, rather than comp sci) will never need to use Perl or C or Java. Python is friendly enough to be useful, but this is still a major pain point. The problem is made worse because it often hits at the beginning instead of 7 lessons in, when they would have some reason to think it is worth struggling through and will eventually work.