> Hi Andrew, [snip]
> Beware of assuming that things that are obvious to those of us who are > experienced programmers are going to be obvious to kids who've never > programmed at all. The idea that someone with no previous exposure will > find Python "readable" seems pretty optimistic to me -- I'm sure there are > kids like that but I haven't had any in my classes. Something as trivial > as > > for val in range(10,0,-1): > print val > print "Blastoff!" > > is not self-explanatory to normal people! Or even non-normal people, like programmers! Of course, you'd start with: for val in [10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]: print val print "Blastoff!" Have fun, -Doug > Andy Judkis > Academy of Allied Health and Science > Neptune, NJ_______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
