On 2/24/06, Peter Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm teaching some prospective K-12 teachers this summer and propose to
introduce them to Python.
peter,
i've been teaching programming to people (kids, adults, everywhere in
between) for 24 years now. when i learned python back in 1997, i
On 2/24/06, Peter Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm teaching some prospective K-12 teachers this summer and propose to
introduce them to Python. Reasons are numerous
- It's the least weird language I know.
- It offers so many programming styles.
- And not least, it's free
SO: Any
Peter Chase wrote:
I'm teaching some prospective K-12 teachers this summer and propose to
introduce them to Python
SO: Any recommendations as to course textbooks? Or just go with Zelle
and/or O'Reilly's latest wood rat book?
- The students presumably have had programming courses
You may want to teach J first, in addition, or instead.
http://www.jsoftware.com/
Also FREE.J is the creation of Turing Award winner Ken Iverson and his
colleague Roger Hui.
J is a modern, high-level, general-purpose, high-performance programming
language. J is portable and runs on
Andre ... before you take offense, you might want to ask Kirby his opinion of J.
g.
From: Andre Roberge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: edu-sig@python.org
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 7:47 PM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You may want to teach J first, in addition, or instead.
J is a reincarnation of Iverson's APL, an array processing language
(witness the example below). It has its nice features, but is off
topic for this list.
Friday, February 24, 2006, 5:00:29 PM, you wrote:
g99a You may want to teach J first, in addition, or instead.
http://www.jsoftware.com/
