[ Brad Miller ] > > I'm curious to hear from others that use Python for introductory > computer science. How often do these 'semantic bugs' crop up for > your students?
Brad, at the time I was teaching undergraduate courses that was not an issue, mainly because Python has such wonderful debugging tools: interactive console, dir()/type(), pdb. What I did was to play with them exploring Python' s reflective tools, so they could learn early on how _survive_ by themselves. But I always gave strong emphasis on Python scoping rules, that might have helped to avoid that particular issue. Or maybe they stumbled in it, and never let me know ;o) best regards, Senra Rodrigo Senra ______________ rsenra @ acm.org http://rodrigo.senra.nom.br _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
