On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Venkatraman S <venka...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would recommend starting with http://alpha.djangogenerator.com/ to get a > feel of an 'application'.
It might be just me but I think this is an *extremely* bad idea. I just tried the site and it looks like a nice point and click wizard to create an "application template" which people can customise into an application. The world has enough people who consider programming mostly a matter of point and click who don't know what's going on. I would be completely against using any of these tools for an introductory programming course. I'd teach language basics, the standard library (like Senthil pointed out) so that they don't reinvent the wheel poorly and then have them solve *hard* problems which are relevant to their area of work. Getting an application up and running with a few clicks of a mouse has the same effect as eating junk food. Your appetite goes away, you can claim that you've eaten something but there's close to zero nourishment. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
