I'm pretty versed in Python, Plone and Zope. Python's pretty easy to learn but you won't find courses which teach it. Courses don't tend to teach dynamic scripting languages exclusively. They tend to stick to the safety languages of C++, Java, etc...
I always thought that python should be taught to young students (elementary, high school, first year college or non-cs college interested in programming). Its fairly "clean" and easy to learn and use without having a deep understanding of programming. I showed my wife, who is not technically inclined, a few things and she got it pretty quickly. Its still fairly new though and I wonder how many teachers who teach this class of student knows about it.
I think it would be great if HOSEF could play some role in pushing this kind of knowledge to teachers who could then have an impact on young minds.
Julian
Tim Newsham http://www.lava.net/~newsham/
