On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Litvin <lit...@skylit.com> wrote: > At 03:52 PM 1/25/2010, kirby urner wrote: >> >> However, if you show the 2 + 2 is adding two objects (2 .__add__(2) >> the same thing), is that "objects first"? > > Yes. >
OK, I agree. 2 .__add__(2) is pretty esoteric, as is dir (2). Not everyone does that, or talks about __ribs__. How about if the teacher says: """ 1.0 and 1 are two different types of number, floating point and integer. "A" is a type as well, a string type. All of these types are types of object. <--- more generic than number. """ But we might get to that only after using Python as a calculator for awhile, getting used to **, assignment operator, parentheses. Should feel like old hat as I bet a lot of these students were already used a TI before. So this'd be "objects second" perhaps? Other approaches: objects after awhile; objects last; objects never. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
