Good point on order of keyword introduction affecting ease. I agree with yours, though having introduced functions first allows me to show how to use return to short-circuit a loop without having to add the extra syntax of break so early.
Dr. Andrew N. Harrington Computer Science Department Graduate Program Director g...@cs.luc.edu Loyola University Chicago 529 Lewis Towers, 111 E. Pearson St. (Downtown) 417 Cudahy Science Hall (Rogers Park campus) http://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh Phone: 312-915-7982 Fax: 312-915-7998 ahar...@luc.edu (as professor, not gpd role) On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > I have found that if you begin teaching: > > for item in lst: > > and > > for letter in word: > > and then add break, and continue, > > and then teach > > for x in range(y): > > and then teach > > while (something): > > it all goes better than if you begin with while loops. > > But I don't know whether this means this is a better order to teach in, > or simply a better order for _me_ to teach in. > > Laura > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >
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