Python and Schools

[sik0fewl]

Jason Smith wrote:
> Bryan L. Fordham wrote:
>>It would make perfect sense for a teacher to require you to use
>>something more than list.sort() if you're studying sorting... but after
>>that, why make you write your own sorting routines if what's provided
>>works just fine?
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Still, what's wrong with this?
> 
>   a.the_sort_that_i_learned_last_week()
> 
> Anyway, this decision is all up to the teacher of course.  So then we see
> that Python gives a teacher flexibility depending on the focus of study. 
> And that sounds like another big plus to me.

Yeah. That's very interesting. For example, one week you could teach 
your students something that involves/requires sorting (can't think of 
any decent examples off the top of my head) and not actually teach them 
sorting until the next week.

-- 
Ryan