[Edu-sig] Python as a first language for computer sciencist

[Beni Cherniavsky]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 13:00 -0500, Brad Miller wrote:
> [...Luther College using Python for CS1, CS2 and data structures...]
> 
> Of course we also teach and use Java but we don't introduce our
> students to Java until the third course in our introductory sequence.
> The nice thing about holding off on Java until the third course is
> that the students now know enough computer science that we can work on
> bigger and more interesting problems while they are learning Java.  In
> addition I can now use Python to compare and contrast as I introduce
> new language concepts in Java. 

Do you tell them about Jython?  Do you have data on how they use Jython?
I guess that with such prior Python experience, they should be very
comfortable mixing the languages.