s+frsells=adventistcare@python.org] On
> Behalf Of Michael_D_G
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:52 AM
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: Python advocacy . HELP!
>
>
> I am a faculty member of a cs department. We currently teach C++ in
> our intro to programming course
"Tim Rowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try asking "Are we teaching computer science, so that the students
> will be able to cope with whatever they meet once they graduate, or
> are we teaching computer programming, in a couple of specific
> languages, so that the students will be completely unp
2008/12/4 Michael_D_G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I am a faculty member of a cs department. We currently teach C++ in
> our intro to programming course. I am teaching this class and it seems
> to me that we would be much better served teaching python in the intro
> course, C++ for Data structures, as
>
> I have looked at several interesting academic papers, on doing just
> this approach. I have also looked through the
> python web page to get examples of industry players using python in a
> non-trivial way. Yes, I know, Google, Microsoft, Sun, CIA website
> running on Plone, NOAA, NASA.
Michael_D_G wrote:
how do I refute
the notion that Python
is a "marginal" language because according to TOBIE it only less than
a 6% market share.
According to the same TIOBE, C++ has less than 11%. So it must be niche
then as well :)
--
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" --
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Michael_D_G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am a faculty member of a cs department. We currently teach C++ in
> our intro to programming course. I am teaching this class and it seems
> to me that we would be much better served teaching python in the intro
> course,
I am a faculty member of a cs department. We currently teach C++ in
our intro to programming course. I am teaching this class and it seems
to me that we would be much better served teaching python in the intro
course, C++ for Data structures, as we do now, and Java in object
oriented programming,
