Teaching python (programming) to children

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, David Andreas Alderud wrote:

> Python is without doubt a very good language, but it's not good for the
> beginner because they will pick up bad practices, mostly because of the
> loose type paradigm.

And what bad practices would those be?

> For teaching programming I strongly belive that Ada95 is by far the best

Ugh. At least teach them something that they can use elsewhere. ;-)

> teaches the students how to write good code

Define "good" code, please.

-Dave