high school programming & python

Phil Hunt philh at vision25.demon.co.uk
Tue Sep 14 05:22:19 EDT 1999


In article <PsnD3.17$ri1.778 at newsfeed.avtel.net>
           nospam at bitbucket.com "Phil Mayes" writes:
> Alan Daniels wrote ...
> [context: suitability of Python as a first language in schools]
> >Other than that, the only disadvantage is the student will get spoiled
> >and not be willing to step down to less productive languages. :=)
> 
> This is, as you imply, a fallacious argument; if carried to its logical
> extreme, we shouldn't teach C because students will be spoiled and not
> want to use assembler.  In fact, assembler spoils people for machine
> language :-)

Machine language! You young people today don't know what hardship
is... when I were a lad, we had to manually patch the ALU using
plug boards to change the logic.

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