Stefan Nobis wrote: > rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>True beginners (no programming experience whatsoever) don't have >>to deal with unlearning stuff such as the bracket plague. > > > That's true. But they also not very used to give nothing (-> > whitespace) a meaning. I teached quite some beginners and most of > them had problems to get the indentation right. > > At least in the very beginning IMHO it would be useful to > explicitly end a block with some kind of an end statement.
You have a very good point. Understanding the flow of a program and the indentation or brackets that go with logical blocks of code would be difficult for those who have never had to think like a programmer before to grasp. Have you read the book titled, "How to think like a Computer Scientist"? It's very good for true beginners and it's free. It uses Python too. It's good at teaching scope and how to recognize blocks of code. > > Meaningful whitespache is not a big problem (as many people seems > to think) but it's also not very obvious and sometimes it causes > at least a little bit trouble. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
