On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 13:00 -0500, Brad Miller wrote: > [...Luther College using Python for CS1, CS2 and data structures...] > > Of course we also teach and use Java but we don't introduce our > students to Java until the third course in our introductory sequence. > The nice thing about holding off on Java until the third course is > that the students now know enough computer science that we can work on > bigger and more interesting problems while they are learning Java. In > addition I can now use Python to compare and contrast as I introduce > new language concepts in Java.
Do you tell them about Jython? Do you have data on how they use Jython? I guess that with such prior Python experience, they should be very comfortable mixing the languages. _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
