[Edu-sig] Suggestion for python learning

Charles Cossé ccosse at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 21:45:00 CEST 2008


On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:48 AM, David MacQuigg
<macquigg at ece.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Can you really learn Python this way?  Try writing some code after listening to a verbal explanation only.  Even if you have amazing powers to visualize what you hear, the verbal description, even for something as simple as a for-loop, would be tedious.
>

If you are stuck in a car for an hour each day and you want to listen
to such an audio book, then it's a 0,1 proposition.  You could at
least learn about object-oriented thinking, and qualitative features
of the language.  It would be a good challenge to attempt to make
programming understandable, to a degree, through an audiobook.

> -- Dave
>
>

Good Idea!
Charles Cosse


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