[PSF-Community] Research on teaching Python vs. other languages?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 28 October 2015 at 06:02, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> A friend at a CS department is advocating to switch to Python as the
> teaching language rather than Java.  Some of his peers would like some
> evidence (research?) that Python is better-suited as a first language.
> Anyone have links to such a thing?

Late to the discussion, but the article Greg Wilson references here is
worth a look: http://neverworkintheory.org/2014/01/29/stefik-siebert-syntax.html

The interesting aspect of that one is that it provides some
peer-reviewed research suggesting that Python and Ruby are genuinely
easier to learn than Java and Perl, rather than that just being a
subjective impression.

Regards,
Nick.

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