Guido van Rossum writes: > This I also agree with. We should not assume readers know any > particular other language,
Most of my students have Python as their first language, and my university mandates using it in introductory courses as of this year. I agree that there are two audiences: those who have some (or a lot) of experience with programming in other languages, and those who are programming novices. I think that the current tutorials are oriented to the former, and are already getting quite long. So I don't think they should be re-oriented to the programming novice. But as the little girl said, "¿Porque no los dos?" (why not both?) There are a ton of "Gentle Introduction to Programming using Python" tutorials out there, I'm sure. Perhaps we can get one contributed. (Don't look at me to write one, that would be a mistake. While I'm willing and have success as a tutor, my written "tutorials" generally repel readers due to excess detail and pedantry. :-( I have no knack for concise enlightening explanations.) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/RJ626WNLKPVFLTPTMELA52V6D2EOUHZI/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
