Teaching Programming

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

André wrote:
> To Samuel Williams:    (and other interested ;-)
>
> If you want to consider Python in education, I would encourage you
> have a look at http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/
>
> I think you will find that there are quite a few resources available -
> perhaps more than you are aware of.
>
> And, I don't think that because "some people do not like the
> indentation strategy" is a valid reason not to consider that Python's
> syntax is concise and simple.   Actually, I would almost argue for the
> contrary.  Indentation indicate programming structure/logic very
> clearly, without the need for arbitrary keywords and other punctuation
> symbols.   There are very few keywords in the language.
>
> You indicate that Python programs are readable.  They are also known
> to be short  (much shorter than some other languages).
> André
>   
Python indentation has been already discussed many times around, I 
remember someone saying something like "How is it possible not to like 
indentation while any decent programmer will use it no matter the 
language, including all those which feature statements/keywords for blocks".

JM