[Edu-sig] real advice to a real student (comments welcome)

[kirby urner]

Followup with same student, not from China but planning to go there:

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Interesting observations, thank you.

At OST we see ourselves as a school, even though in the .com
domain. Given what you say about other schools not availing
of these newer / better tools:  that works to our advantage,
but on the other hand we don't think the world should be run
by dinosaurs.

Sounds like you and I have similar goals in making a good
case for Python.

Regarding China and Chinese, a big open question around
here is to what extent will Asian coders want to revert to
native scripts e.g. Devanagari, now that Unicode allows
source code in any language.  In Python, your English skills
would still matter given the 33 keywords, builtins, and
standard library are English language (by dictator decree
-- he's Dutch and English is not his native language, but
he recognizes its utility for a global parlance).  However
your class, function and variable names may freely refer
to the objects of your knowledge domain and experience
and there I think the impulse would be to give up on
using English.  That's a likely long term trend:  more
source code in more languages (human languages).


Kirby
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