Re: Python?
- From: Jared Stofflett <stofflet@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:43:01 -0500
How experienced are these students? The indintation is a pain and was a
poor design choice in the language but can be overcome using the
pindent.py script. If the student has had programming experience they
should pick up the indintation no problem but if they haven't a little
one on one instruction in editing and running Python code will probably
be necessary. I don't like Python as a language to teach computer
science since it lacks things like static typing and memory management
but this is more of a personal prefference and these things can be
taught in later courses. I how ever am of the opinion that CS courses
should start out with c++ since higher level courses such as operating
systems require it, as well as courses that go over memory management
and that dynamic languages should be introduced later.
For more info about Python's indentation and ways to deal with it while
blind see this link.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118643/is-there-a-way-to-convert-indentation-in-python-code-to-braces
Suzanne Balik wrote:
Could some of you comment on using Python to teach programming at the
college level and the effect that would have, if any, on blind students?
Thanks so much,
Suzanne
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