Teaching Programming

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> Nobody likes indentation at first, it is different.  

For what it's worth, I didn't have a programming background, and I
liked Python's indentation right from the start.  I was used to
thinking in terms of indentation from writing and word processing
documents with subordinate sections, so I found it very natural (and
already had a well-developed tab finger).  On the other hand, curly
braces always have struck me as visual "clutter".