[Edu-sig] Python in a paper on languages for introductory programming

[Atanas Radenski]

A recent paper entitled "An objective comparison of languages for  
teaching introductory programming" - by Linda Manilla and Michael de  
Raadt - praises Python as a beginner's language:

http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/upcerg/Publications/proceedingsKoliCalling2006/research2.pdf

A comparison is outlined in Section 3, Table 2 in the above paper.

The volume that contains the paper was just announced on the ACM-SIGSE  
list. It can be found here:
http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/upcerg/Publications/proceedingsKoliCalling2006

Atanas
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