> > Now, the most Utopian thing would be if the Ministry of Education would > suddenly decide that the 5-unit Bagrut in computers would consist of > learning Python/OSS, including all the skills I mentioned above, and then > the big universities will teach Python in their introductory programming > courses instead of C and Java. That would be heaven, and in my opinion this > will greatly improve Israel's tech scene in 5-10 years. > > But it would be very hard to make it happen, as the Ministry of Education > is very conservative, and so are universities.[1] >
Update: Tel-Aviv University is having a pilot next semester (the spring one) of teaching Introduction to Computer Science (for CS students) in Python (rather than in Scheme, which is a variant of lisp). I happen to be the TA in this class, so I would be happy to hear suggestions. Note that this is NOT an Introduction to Programming course. I do not expect students to know Python's ins and outs. I'll mention documentation and debugging, but won't go into licensing.
_______________________________________________ Python-il mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-il
