Hi We finally got around to writing up our experiences with teaching introductory programming programming using python. Our interest is teaching students outside of cs where there is already a busy curriculum. It basically tracks 5 years experience from teaching using a traditional lecture style (which was a disaster) to a software carpentry style (which the students *love*).
Recently there was some discussion on the list about teaching undergraduates and literature supporting choice for first programming languages etc. We have tried to provide sufficient coverage of the literature to support these choices - hopefully any of you making the case in your own faculty might find these references useful. The preprint is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05425 We have just submitted it for review and so will have another round of editing before final publication. Please let me know if you have any comments, criticisms suggests, citations missed etc. Regards Gerard
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