[school-discuss] First Programming Language

[David Bucknell <david@members.iteachnet.org>]

Dear Colleagues, 

Jeff Elkner teaches computer programming at Yorktown High School in Arlington, 
 Virginia, in the U.S. He had the same question many of you do: which computer 
 language is the best first language to learn? For some of you, it is decided by 
 a curriculum you use; for others, you have some power to decide. Jeff chose a 
 cross-platform language called Python. In his article for Open Source Schools 
 this month, he explains why and how it has led to the writing of an open source 
 text book, _How to Think Like a Computer Scientist_, of which he is a 
 co-author.  This is an extremely relevant topic with an uncommonly
well-executed 
 answer: http://opensourceschools.org/article.php?story=20020306020123275 

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