[Edu-sig] Starting Python

[dblank at brynmawr.edu]

> Hi Andrew,

[snip]

> Beware of assuming that things that are obvious to those of us who are
> experienced programmers are going to be obvious to kids who've never
> programmed at all. The idea that someone with no previous exposure will
> find Python "readable" seems pretty optimistic to me -- I'm sure there are
> kids like that but I haven't had any in my classes.  Something as trivial
> as
>
>         for val in range(10,0,-1):
>                 print val
>         print "Blastoff!"
>
> is not self-explanatory to normal people!

Or even non-normal people, like programmers! Of course, you'd start with:

for val in [10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]:
   print val
print "Blastoff!"

Have fun,

-Doug

> Andy Judkis
> Academy of Allied Health and Science
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