Teaching the art of programming, in python

[Bernhard Reiter]

In article <38EB73B6.6C0913A7 at callware.com>,
	Ivan Van Laningham <ivanlan at callware.com> writes:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:

>> And all in 24 hours?
>> This is as misleading as the dummy attribute.

> I don't think so.  You can go at your own speed.  The book is broken up
> into 24 chapters, each taking more or less than an hour to read.  If you
> pay attention and apply yourself, you could, I think, arrive at some
> degree of understanding in the overall 24-hour time frame--give or take
> a few hours.

Well I guess that a good speed would be 14 days, then. :)
With two hour lections plus time to exercise.

> I picked up the basics of Python in perhaps four hours.  That's a
> tribute to the language, not me.  Given an interested, attentive newbie,
> I think it's entirely possible to teach programming and expose the
> newbie to some of the finer things in life in 24 hours or so--with
> Python.
> 
>> Ranting-about-dummy-booktitles-ly-yours,
Well I am just ranting about book title giving wrong impressions.
24 times a one hours session can be quite a bit to teach people the
basics, I agree with that. But for all the philosophy I guess that
you need to spread the lectures about a larger time period. :)

> <ranting-is-misleading>-ly y'rs,
Splitting-hair-for-less-marketing-hype-ly y'rs,
	Bernhard
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