Teaching python (programming) to children

[Fredrik Lundh]

Brian Elmegaard wrote:
> Exactly, you don't have to do it perfectly, when you start learning
> how to do it. In schools nowadays you are awarded for a cribbled,
> backwards, upside-down G, the first day and is punished for it two
> years after.

what many people are missing is that in real life, the software
equivalents to backwards upside-down G's are often good enough.

even two years later.

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