Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-26 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: ... let's try some google searches and see the number of million hits...: But how reliable are those estimates of numbers of hits, anyway? More than once I've got a page showing something like Results 1 - 10 of about 36

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-26 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mirco Wahab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C++ programming requires you to massively invest your thinking first into the setup of your build environment ... I don't understand why. It's easy enough to build small programs with a single g++ command. --

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-26 Thread Duncan Booth
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: ... let's try some google searches and see the number of million hits...: But how reliable are those estimates of numbers of hits, anyway? More than once I've got a page showing something

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-26 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Lawrence D'Oliveiro (on 2006-06-26 09:21): In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mirco Wahab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C++ programming requires you to massively invest your thinking first into the setup of your build environment ... I don't understand why. It's easy enough to build

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Martelli
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: ... let's try some google searches and see the number of million hits...: But how reliable are those estimates of numbers of hits, anyway? More than once I've got a page

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-26 Thread Gary Duzan
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mirco Wahab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spoke Cameron Laird (on 2006-06-25 13:08): I'll gratuitously add that, even though I'm personally fond of C++, I think teaching it as is done in colleges and high schools (!) amounts to child abuse. It's wildly

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-26 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mirco Wahab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spoke Lawrence D'Oliveiro (on 2006-06-26 09:21): In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mirco Wahab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C++ programming requires you to massively invest your thinking first into the setup of your build

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-26 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Duzan) wrote: I understand that the school switched [from C++] to Java a short time later, which is some improvement, but still has a good bit of baggage. Java started out trying to avoid most of the complexities of C++, but ended up

Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread MilkmanDan
I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer science, and I happened to notice that everything taught is using C++. After further research, it seems to me that C++ seems

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread BartlebyScrivener
dan but out of curiousity does dan anyone know of a school that teaches Python? http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ University of Maryland I have the students learn Python in our undergraduate and graduate Semantic Web courses. Why? Because basically there's nothing else with the flexibility

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], MilkmanDan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer science, and I happened to notice that everything taught

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Cameron Laird (on 2006-06-25 13:08): I'll gratuitously add that, even though I'm personally fond of C++, I think teaching it as is done in colleges and high schools (!) amounts to child abuse. It's wildly inappropriate. C++ programming requires you to massively invest your

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread faulkner
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering I TAed a python class last semester, and am using it to build a webapp for the Arts and Humanities dept. http://www.olin.edu MilkmanDan wrote: I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread Alex Martelli
MilkmanDan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer science, and I happened to notice that everything taught is using C++. After

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread David Reed
MilkmanDan wrote: I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer science, and I happened to notice that everything taught is using C ++. After further research,

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread diffuser78
I think there is a Python club at UCF, Orlandomight help you indirectly. MilkmanDan wrote: I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer science, and I happened

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread diffuser78
I replied to a wrong post. My bad.I know for sure that there is some kinda Python Club at UCF Orlando. There is Prof called Michael Johnson who teaches Physics gives you an intro to Python. http://www.physics.ucf.edu/~mdj/MinimalPython.html Good Luck --

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Hicks
BartlebyScrivener wrote: dan but out of curiousity does dan anyone know of a school that teaches Python? http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ University of Maryland I have the students learn Python in our undergraduate and graduate Semantic Web courses. Why? Because basically there's