[Edu-sig] Research on best language to use for teaching beginners

[Laura Creighton]

I have found that if you begin teaching:

for item in lst:

and

for letter in word:

and then add break, and continue,

and then teach

for x in range(y):

and then teach

while (something):

it all goes better than if you begin with while loops.

But I don't know whether this means this is a better order to teach in,
or simply a better order for _me_ to teach in.

Laura