[Edu-sig] Python testimonial sought...

[kirby urner]

Hi Andre --

My clearest memory along those lines was it was a "talking head" maybe
Jeff Elkner himself in that student-made video about the virtues of
Python.

You may recall the video:  there's an "old hippie" dad, a parody of a
student's father.  It's a kind of love story, where this girl show
this boy how easy it is to learn this language.  I actually thought it
was kinda sweet and regret that it's no longer out there (or maybe it
is).

My recollection is way have several cutaway shots to teacher / experts
who share their enthusiasm for this new language and it was in one of
those interviews that the point is made that in C/C++ you just never
get to tackle the kinds of projects Python allows because you're still
mired in the details of setting up a memory file for graphics or
whatever the low-level hell.

Kirby


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com> wrote:
> A few years ago (at least 5 I believe) I remember reading an account from
> two students who had to do a term project in their final CS year.  They
> decided to do it in Python (which they had learned on their own) whereas
> everyone else was using something like C++ or Java which was taught in their
> department.  From what I remember, they completed the required work in
> something like 4 weeks whereas no other student team managed to do it while
> working for the entire term.
>
> Does anyone remember this and, more crucially, would have a link to the
> original story?
>
> André
>
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