[Baypiggies] Looking for a newbie nugget presenter for Thursday, Sept 11th

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

> Explaining the difference between nonlocal, global is a good idea.

Agreed.

> I
> try to think about confusing stuff for C/C++ programmers. The semantic
> of the = operator, how do you live without pointers ?
>
>>>> A = [0,1]
>>>> def add(A): A.append(2)
> ...
>>>> add(A)
>>>> A
> [0, 1, 2]

It's easy--everything's a pointer.  Even ints are pointers.  It's just
that ints are immutable, so they act like values.  However, under the
covers, they're really just pointers.

-jj

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