high school programming & python

Phil Mayes nospam at bitbucket.com
Tue Sep 14 04:13:19 EDT 1999


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 :-)
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