Re: [Edu-sig] Programming Exercises

Chuck Allison wrote: Hello edu-sig, Does anyone know of a good source of programming exercises/projects to use when teaching Python to people who already know another language? Solutions don't need to be available - I just need some good sample programming assignments. Thanks. You

Re: [Edu-sig] Programming Exercises

Chuck Allison wrote: Hello Scott, Thursday, May 26, 2005, 1:55:15 AM, you wrote: SDD Chuck Allison wrote: Hello edu-sig, Does anyone know of a good source of programming exercises/projects to use when teaching Python to people who already know another language? Solutions don't need

Re: [Edu-sig] Lisping

It is fine and good to learn a single language, but this is not computer science. A single language is just a tool. It is necessary to learn several languages in order to have an idea of what computer science actually means. I believe that introductory computer science should be taught with

[Edu-sig] Python and OCaml (Was Lisping)

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Radenski, Atanas wrote: It is fine and good to learn a single language, but this is not computer science. A single language is just a tool. It is necessary to learn several languages in order to have an idea of what computer science actually means. I believe that

[Edu-sig] An somewhat stale article about using Java for introductory programming; what can we as Python educators learn from them?

Hi everyone, [Warning: I guess I ramble and rant here a bit. My apologies!] I picked up an interesting (if outdated) article on the Use of Java as an Introductory Programming Language: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds4-4/introjava.html It's written in the 1990's, so some of the