Python and Schools

[Bryan L. Fordham]

Lee Harr wrote:

> What I mean is that students should first learn how to use the tools before
> they are required to know how to make them.

Absolutely.  This is how my calculus teach in HS taught us: he'd show us 
the really complicated way, then show us the shortcut.

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?

--B