[Edu-sig] Python testimonial sought...

[Andre Roberge]

Thanks for the info Kirby and to Jeff for finding the link.  Unfortunately,
that was not it.  (I did watch the entire video)   What I am looking for
was something written by a fourth-year University student about a final
year project.

André


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andre --
>
> My clearest memory along those lines was it was a "talking head" maybe
> Jeff Elkner himself in that student-made video about the virtues of
> Python.
>
> You may recall the video:  there's an "old hippie" dad, a parody of a
> student's father.  It's a kind of love story, where this girl show
> this boy how easy it is to learn this language.  I actually thought it
> was kinda sweet and regret that it's no longer out there (or maybe it
> is).
>
> My recollection is way have several cutaway shots to teacher / experts
> who share their enthusiasm for this new language and it was in one of
> those interviews that the point is made that in C/C++ you just never
> get to tackle the kinds of projects Python allows because you're still
> mired in the details of setting up a memory file for graphics or
> whatever the low-level hell.
>
> Kirby
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > A few years ago (at least 5 I believe) I remember reading an account from
> > two students who had to do a term project in their final CS year.  They
> > decided to do it in Python (which they had learned on their own) whereas
> > everyone else was using something like C++ or Java which was taught in
> their
> > department.  From what I remember, they completed the required work in
> > something like 4 weeks whereas no other student team managed to do it
> while
> > working for the entire term.
> >
> > Does anyone remember this and, more crucially, would have a link to the
> > original story?
> >
> > André
> >
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