Re: [school-discuss] First Programming Language

[Jennifer Dozar <jennifer@orange.zorcat.com>]

Python is a good language to start out on.
Please don't get into some weird flame/"oh i learnedthis first" kind of
list. cause i have had quite anough of that on another list. just a
bunch of older guys saying learning Basic or Fortran for an 8 year old! 

ANyway, i was just staying Python is actually a good choice. 
anyways. that's my 2 cents. 

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at
05:32:22PM +0000, David Bucknell wrote:
> 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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