[Tutor] New Introductory Book

[Chris Calloway]

Danyelle Gragsone wrote:
> I wonder what schools offer python as a course.

It has been rather widely publicized of late that MIT this year switched 
all their incoming computer science and electrical engineering students 
to Python (from Lisp) as their introductory programming language.

They use this well regarded $26.40 textbook:

http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Introduction-Computer-Science/dp/1887902996/

There is a computer science department at my university. They don't 
teach languages. Teaching languages is frowned upon in some computer 
science departments under the logic that if you belong in a computer 
science class, you'd better show up for class already knowing something 
as easy to grasp as an implementation language. Some computer science 
courses at my university have an implementation language used in the 
class. I've noticed both Python and Lisp used.

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Chris Calloway
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