Reconceptualizing for beginners...
Many people working with kids have asked for various changes to Python
in order to make it easier for kids, sometimes very young. Some
variations have been requested more than once.
1. Simple looping: 'repeat/do/loop/for n [times]:' (take your pick of
keyw
Personally I'd say it doesn't smell right to be making a non-standard
Python through a pre-processor that only works in IDLE.
What's wrong with "while" if you want simple loops without getting into
range(n)?
Or just define a couple of new functions that are more English-like?
for i in count_to(4
For what it's worth: Science and engineering students in the college intro
physics course who use Python (VPython) to model physical systems typically
have no prior programming experience, so it is necessary in a crowded
physics curriculum to teach them only a very small minimalist subset of
Python
On 10/9/2015 11:27 PM, phil jones wrote:
Personally I'd say it doesn't smell right to be making a non-standard
Python through a pre-processor that only works in IDLE.
A code translation function can be used anywhere one apply it. Is it
better for a non-standard Python to only work in a non-st
