Prof. Kanabar (kanabar.bu.edu) is planning to offer a python course there soon. Perhaps he could help. Tell him you got his name from me (Fred Sells).
> -----Original Message----- > From: python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare....@python.org > [mailto:python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare....@python.org] On > Behalf Of Michael_D_G > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:52 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Python advocacy . HELP! > > > I am a faculty member of a cs department. We currently teach C++ in > our intro to programming course. I am teaching this class and it seems > to me that we would be much better served teaching python in the intro > course, C++ for Data structures, as we do now, and Java in object > oriented programming, as we do now. > Some of my colleagues agree with me but some still see python as a > niche language and don't understand > how we could teach anything beyond C, C++ or Java. > > I have looked at several interesting academic papers, on doing just > this approach. I have also looked through the > python web page to get examples of industry players using python in a > non-trivial way. Yes, I know, Google, > Microsoft, Sun, CIA website running on Plone, NOAA, NASA. If anyone > has any recent articles, > or if anyone on the list is at a fortune 500 company, how do I refute > the notion that Python > is a "marginal" language because according to TOBIE it only less than > a 6% market share. > > -michael > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
