Re: Long rant about Python in Education

2010-08-12 Thread John Bokma
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" writes: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:05:55 -0700 (PDT) > เข้านอน wrote: >> have to teach them to enjoy programming, enjoy computers, and develop >> their minds in a way that doesn't involve becoming 'Imams' who are >> essentially the learned mafia bosses of terrorism. > > This is

Re: Long rant about Python in Education

2010-08-12 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:05:55 -0700 (PDT) เข้านอน wrote: > have to teach them to enjoy programming, enjoy computers, and develop > their minds in a way that doesn't involve becoming 'Imams' who are > essentially the learned mafia bosses of terrorism. This is the point that I stopped reading your "

Long rant about Python in Education

2010-08-12 Thread ???????
This is in response to one of the pyWiki pages: PythonAsAFirstLanguage. If there's a better place I could have posted this, please tell me about it. I will be posting this elsewhere over the next few ideas, because I feel it's my duty to spread this idea. It's not grandiose, just Quixotic. Someo